WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for XML

Since first being standardized in 1999, XML usage in application development environments has grown significantly to include many scenarios such as:

• A simplified programming mode for building presentation flexible Web applications utilizing end-to-end declarative XML. XML presentation can easily be adapted to various platform types from mobile to desktop
• Access, search, retrieval, and presentation of data or documents stored in native XML
• Filter for XML data sets such as Web feeds in Java applications
• XML data transformations for application development scenarios

WebSphere Application Server is a leading platform for the latest application development standards that matter including XML. The WebSphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for XML delivers support for important XML standards to benefit various XML application development scenarios.

Specifically, the WebSphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for XML provides application developers with support for the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) XML standards XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery 1.0. These new and updated W3C XML standards enable application developers with numerous advanced capabilities for building XML applications.

• Simplifies XML application development and improve developer productivity
• Helps improve XML application performance through new features introduced in the W3C specifications to address previous shortcomings
• Helps improve performance, fidelity and ease of use by natively working with XML data while leveraging standards based skillsets
• Helps improve XML application reliability with new support for XML schema awareness and validation in XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0
• Enables developers to query large amounts of data stored in XML outside of a database with XQuery 1.0
• Supports Java applications that connect to WebSphere Application Server through an XML thin client
• Provides enterprise class multi-threaded scalability, serviceability with IBM support
• Offers consistent execution (invocation) and data navigation API while allowing access to existing Java logic across the XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, and XQuery 1.0
• Provides 40 samples of the new standards along with four end to end samples that show these standards in typical Web applications