Overview
WebSphere Application Server delivers a faster, more flexible development environment along with intelligent management capabilities for enhanced resiliency

A scalable application foundation that can go from single server to moderately sized departmental configurations to large-scale, dynamic web applications requiring web tier clustering and fail over across multiple application server instances
Optimize developer productivity and web application deployment with the new Liberty Profile option, an ultra lightweight, fast starting, highly composable application server profile.
Improve productivity and resiliency while gaining interruption free rollout without incurring outages to your end users with Application Edition Management
Realize higher application availability to end users with new Application Health Management that monitors the status of your application servers and senses and responds to problem areas before end users suffer and outage.
Improve business results by ensuring priority is given to business critical applications with new Intelligent Routing features that prioritizes and routes requests based upon administrator defined rules.
Handle spikes in demand and dynamically provision and start and stop new instance of application server Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) based on workload demands.
Gain higher quality of service by leveraging a common Java infrastructure for OLTP and batch applications with new Enterprise Batch Workload support that can be executed across multiple Java EE environments.
Developer tool options to match project development needs, support for Java 7,and OSGi, enhanced Migration Toolkit support, Support for the Web 2.0 and Mobile Toolkit
A variety of pricing alternatives, including socket-based pricing
White paper
Why Upgrade to WebSphere Application Server V8
Redbook
WebSphere Application Server: Administration and Configuration Guide
Product framework
Product line overview
The WebSphere Application Server Family drives business agility through a choice of innovative performance based foundations
Learn more about the new features of WebSphere Application Server
Included components
The WebSphere Application Server simplifies the way you consume the adoption of new standards
Additional products, services and solutions
Products
Get enhanced resiliency, dynamic scalability, higher availability, and intelligent routing capabilities for your critical applications



