Features and Benefits
In order to become more agile and productive, business users are seeking applications that address various situational needs at a departmental, project, or team level. These "situational" applications are often less critical and utilized by a relatively small number of users.
Traditionally, enterprise developers have struggled to address the time to market requirements of these situational applications, resulting in a growing application back log and the existence of applications outside of the control of IT. What is needed is a new approach that leverages agile programming models such as those provided in dynamic scripting languages and lightweight Web 2.0 technologies.
The WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Dynamic Scripting can help enterprise IT to address situational application needs by providing a Web-oriented programming model focused on agility through the use of Web 2.0 and dynamic scripting technologies. Based on WebSphere sMash, the Feature Pack for Dynamic Scripting delivers the PHP and Groovy dynamic script languages and an innovative Web 2.0 programming model.
Key features
Leverage dynamic scripting with PHP and Groovy to quickly address application requirements
Incorporate WebSphere sMash technology to provide a Web 2.0 oriented programming model for exposing data through RESTful Web services and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Leverage sMash to produce iWidgets that can be incorporated in WebSphere Portal and IBM Mashup Center
Deployment of WebSphere sMash PHP and Groovy applications for production use on entitled WebSphere Application Server V6.1 and V7.0 servers to address less critical situational application needs where time to market is a key consideration
Run WebSphere sMash V1.1.1 applications unchanged
Access to the innovative Project Zero community Web site for developer support with forums, documentation, and samples
Community-supported browser-based tooling and an Eclipse plug-in for application developers available at no charge on the Project Zero community Web site
Community-supported centralized management and deployment -- sMash Enterprise Packager -- available on the Project Zero community Web site
