WebSphere Application Server - Express

High Performance SOA Environment
Anticipate and adjust to a constantly changing environment. WebSphere Application Server V7 provides a fast, secure, scalable and reliable environment that enables development and application efficiencies so that businesses can do more with fewer resources.

Unparalleled Performance
Do more with less. WebSphere Application Server V7 delivers optimized runtime performance resulting in fewer processors needed to perform the same workloads of previous versions. Fewer processors mean savings in hardware and energy so that your business can grow in any economy.

• Processing, web services and EJB3 enhancements and overall memory reductions accelerate runtime performance

Rock-solid Security
Rest assured, applications and data are secure from attack. Out-of-the-box security configurations and user registry, compliance with government standards, and stringent Web services security offer peace-of-mind. New security capabilities add new levels of management, user governance and auditing to decrease system vulnerabilities while maximizing developer productivity.
WebSphere Security Domains delivers greater granulation, flexibility and control over users and infrastructure.

• WebSphere Security Domains delivers greater granulation, flexibility and control over users and infrastructure to increase administration efficiencies

• Security auditing capabilities ensure security compliance to ease development

• Broader implementation of Kerberos delivers improved interoperability with other applications and environments to increase developer productivity

Application Reuse and Integration
Investment Protection through integration and reuse. Enables re-use of applications and services and makes them accessible to new users in new ways, improving the ability to connect to partners, suppliers and customers and increase your return on investment.

• Extensive Web services support, Web 2.0 and a powerful Java Messaging Service (JMS) engine to help you extend the reach of your existing applications and maximize asset utilization.

• New Web services standards, including WS-Business Activity, WS-Notification and WS-I Basic Security Profile, help you more securely extend your reach, and give better application portability and control.

• WebSphere Application Server Version 7 extends services to the most heterogeneous environments by interoperating seamlessly with WebSphere MQ and is tightly integrated with WebSphere ESB - the combination of these products form a powerful Enterprise Service Bus that can integrate the most diverse applications and environments.

• New Deployment manager enables you to manage previous versions of WebSphere Application Server so that you can adopt newer infrastructure as your plans require

• New technology offers the ability to run applications developed in previous versions of WebSphere Application Server eliminating intensive cost and resource requirements

Run your applications where it makes sense for you.

• WebSphere Application Server V7 supports the broadest range of platforms in the industry, helping provide assurance that your applications can be built to run on the platform that most makes sense for your business.

Intelligent Management
Flexibility in response to evolving business needs. WebSphere Application Server V7 offers a simplified infrastructure, flexible and effective application control and runtime efficiency empowering you to respond to evolving requirements with the system intelligence you need.

• Runtime provisioning and OSGi technology dynamically selects only the needed functions for memory and space reducing the application server footprint

• Flexible Management features improve efficiencies of administration and allows remote production resource management of WAS Base and WAS Express

• New Administration tools enable attention to the deepest level of security providing fine grained security management levels

• New WebSphere Business Level Applications (WBLA) expands the notion of "application" beyond Java EE 5 to significantly improve the management of multi-component applications, simplifying administrative tasks

• Improved Console Command Assistant, easier security configuration and database connectivity, wizards and a stand-alone thin administration client enable efficient management of the deployment environment

Simplification for Developers
WebSphere Application Server V7 offers enhanced support for standards, emerging technology and a choice of development frameworks that simplify programming models to increase developer productivity. Integral tooling makes the most of existing technology skills for rapid time to value.

• Java EE 5 certification, EJB 3.0 support and Java Persistence API (JPA) and Java Development Kit (JDK) 6.0, delivers simplified programming models for building reusable persistent objects

• Web services support simplifies interoperability in mixed environments including support for:

  
    - JAX-WS, SOAP 1.2, MTOM, XOP, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Policy, and Kerberos Token Profile.

• Web 2.0 support simply extends service-oriented architecture (SOA) by connecting external Web services, internal SOA services, and Java Platform Enterprise Edition (JEE) objects into highly interactive Web application interfaces.

  
    - Web 2.0 Feature Pack for WAS V7

• Spring has certification for use with WebSphere Application Server to enable module-based programming

• WebSphere Application Server Feature Packs simplify the adoption of new standards such Services Component Architecture (SCA)

• Single-step installation and configuration, wizards and default configurations, and easy to navigate documentation that includes extensive use of sample code help ensure fast and smooth start-up

• IBM Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere V7.5 is available and fully exploits capabilities within WebSphere Application Server V7, accelerating delivery of higher quality, mission critical applications

Innovation that Matters
Innovative features support the hottest technical innovations now and in the future. Addressing today’s challenges requires new ways of thinking—new ways of doing business and designing the technology that runs it. It requires innovation—but not innovation for the sake of new technology—it requires innovation that matters. WebSphere Application Server V7 technology enables new ways of executing business, by providing new technology to help you compete and add value.

• Improving consumability with Feature Packs. WebSphere Application Server Feature Packs are designed to balance our customers’ desire for less frequent releases while still making available the latest standards to our customers who need them. With Feature Packs, customers can selectively take advantage of new standards and features while maintaining a more stable internal release cycle.

• Compelling new ways to interact. WebSphere Application Server V7 supports Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) servlets to offer standardized support for interactive user sessions that involve real-time multimedia elements such as voice, video, instant messaging and online games.

• Innovations in programming models. WebSphere Application Server V7 enables your innovation by providing developers with a platform that supports broad programming models; J2SE 6, Java EE 5, WS-I Reliable Secure Profile, Web 2.0, SCA, SIP