Use this section as a starting point to investigate the technologies used in and by applications that you deploy on the application server.
Use the Learn about WebSphere applications section as a starting point to study the programing model, encompassing the many parts used in and by various application types supported by the application server.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about ActivitySessions, a WebSphere® extension for reducing the complexity of commitment rules and limitations that are associated with one-phase commit resources.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about application profiling, a WebSphere extension for defining strategies to dynamically control concurrency, prefetch, and read-ahead.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about asynchronous beans.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about batch applications.
The Bean Validation API is introduced with the Java Enterprise Edition 6 platform as a standard mechanism to validate Enterprise JavaBeans in all layers of an application, including, presentation, business and data access. Before the Bean Validation specification, the JavaBeans were validated in each layer. To prevent the reimplementation of validations at each layer, developers bundled validations directly into their classes or copied validation code, which was often cluttered. Having one implementation that is common to all layers of the application simplifies the developers work and saves time.
Communications Enabled Applications (CEA) is a functionality that provides the ability to add dynamic web communications to any application or business process. The product provides a suite of integrated telephony and collaborative web services that extends the interactivity of enterprise and web commerce applications. With the CEA capability, enterprise solution architects and developers can use a single core application to enable multiple modes of communication. Enterprise developers do not need to have extensive knowledge of telephony or Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to implement CEA. The CEA capability delivers call control, notifications, and interactivity and provides the platform for more complex communications.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about application clients and client applications. Application clients provide a framework on which application code runs, so that your client applications can access information on the application server.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about data access. Various enterprise information systems (EIS) use different methods for storing data. These backend data stores might be relational databases, procedural transaction programs, or object-oriented databases.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about the dynamic cache service, which improves performance by caching the output of servlets, commands, web services, and JavaServer Pages (JSP) files.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about enterprise beans.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about resources that are used by applications that are deployed on a Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE)-compliant application server. They include:
This page provides a starting point for finding information about Managed beans.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about the use of asynchronous messaging resources for enterprise applications with WebSphere Application Server.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about naming support. Naming includes both server-side and client-side components. The server-side component is a Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) naming service (CosNaming). The client-side component is a Java™ Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) service provider. JNDI is a core component in the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) programming model.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about the Object Request Broker (ORB). The product uses an ORB to manage communication between client applications and server applications as well as among product components. These Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) standard services are relevant to the ORB: Remote Method Invocation/Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (RMI/IIOP) and Java Interface Definition Language (Java IDL).
This page provides a starting point for finding information about OSGi applications.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about portlet applications, which are special reusable Java servlets that appear as defined regions on portal pages. Portlets provide access to many different applications, services, and web content.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about Service Component Architecture (SCA) composites, which consist of components that implement business functions in the form of services.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about service integration.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about SIP applications, which are Java programs that use at least one Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) servlet written to the JSR 116 specification.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about how to develop Spring applications that can run successfully in a WebSphere Application Server environment.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about Java Transaction API (JTA) support. Applications running on the server can use transactions to coordinate multiple updates to resources as one unit of work, such that all or none of the updates are made permanent.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about work areas, a WebSphere extension for improving developer productivity.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about web applications, which are comprised of one or more related files that you can manage as a unit, including:
This page provides a starting point for finding information about web services.
This page provides a starting point for finding information about XML applications.