This version offers robust improvements, whether you are
new to the product, or making the transition from a prior release.
New feature: The new features that are
described in this topic are current as of the original release of
the product version. Changes in this documentation that are related
to service releases are marked with fix pack icons.
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WebSphere® Application Server is a proven,
high-performance transaction engine that can help you build, run,
integrate, and manage dynamic business applications. It excels as
the foundation for a service-oriented architecture with the following
main benefits:
- Simple, rapid development and deployment
Improve time to value and make the most of existing technology
skills with easy-to-use features designed to get you to production
fast.
- Secure and scalable SOA run time
Robust and secure run time ensures that applications and data
are safe, with near continuous uptime for mission-critical applications.
- Extensible communication services
Increase your return on investment and improve the flexibility
of your business by making application services more reusable and
accessible to new users in unique ways.
- Effective application management
Focus resources on innovation instead of maintenance, and reduce
the costs of managing your environment with effective and easy-to-use
management tools.
Use the following topics to learn about new and changed features
in key areas that impact your business environment:
Skip ahead to the details that interest you, or continue reading
this topic to obtain a full overview of new features in this release.
Simple, rapid development and deployment
Improve
time to value and make the most of existing technology skills with
easy-to-use features that are designed to get you to production fast.
The following key features exist:
- Industry-leading, open standards programming models
- Tight integration with Rational® tools
for first-class, application-building functionality
- Tools and utilities to enable fast deployment
The following
WebSphere Application Server,
Version 7.0 highlights exist:
- Simplification of the programming model with Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5.0, including Enterprise JavaBeans™ (EJB) 3.0 and Java Persistence API (JPA) 1.0
- Java Platform, Standard
Edition (Java SE) 6 for improved
developer productivity and faster debugging
- Rational Application
Developer—assemble and deploy module for the application server to
help you create, test, and deploy applications, including a rapid-deployment
feature for testing applications in the Version 7.0 runtime environment
- Easier movement of applications through development, test, and
production systems with environment-neutral variables and configuration
in simple properties files
Secure and scalable SOA run time
Run applications
and data, which help eliminate lost business opportunities with near
continuous uptime for mission-critical applications.
- Fully secured environment out of the box, with simple configuration
of additional security options
- Cutting-edge performance for real applications in commercial environments
The following
WebSphere Application Server,
Version 7.0 highlights exist:
- Multiple security domains provide flexibility for administrative
and application security configurations
- Fine-grained administrative security through the administration
console
- Security auditing service to assist with audit compliance
- WebSphere Proxy Server
hardened for demilitarized zone (DMZ) topologies
- Resource efficient features and faster run time, with new high-performance
Web services engine
Extensible communication services
WebSphere Application Server,
Version 7.0 highlights include:
- Web services programming model enhancements, including WS-I Reliable
Secure Profile support and Policy Sets for simple quality of service
definition
- Fast new Java API for XML
Web Services (JAX-WS) engine with improved administration for Web
services applications
- Simplified administration of messaging engine with new wizards
and administrative tasks
- Enhanced integration with WebSphere MQ
- Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) infrastructure enhancements
Effective application management
Focus resources
on innovation instead of maintenance and reduce the costs of managing
your environment, with effective, easy-to-use management tools.
- Industry-leading, flexible, and scalable systems management capabilities
- Web-based administrative console
- Java Management Extensions
(JMX)
- Tight integration with Tivoli® software
WebSphere Application Server,
Version 7.0 highlights include:
- Reduced overhead of standalone server administration through the
administrative agent console
- Increased scale of administration through the job manager console
- Library of sample scripts to perform common administrative actions
on Version 6.1 and Version 7.0 systems
- Business-level applications: new administration model that captures
entire model of application
- Management of DataPower® appliances
through the administrative console