This version offers many new and exciting improvements,
whether you are new to the product, or making the transition from
a prior release.
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The new features that are
described in this topic are current as of the original release of
the product version. Changes in this documentation that are related
to service releases are marked with fix pack icons.
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WebSphere® Application Server is a proven,
high-performance transaction engine that can help you build, run,
integrate, and manage dynamic business applications. It excels as
the foundation for a service-oriented architecture (SOA) with these
main benefits:
- Simple, rapid development and deployment
Improve time to value and make the most of existing technology
skills with easy to use features designed to get you to production
fast.
- Secure and scalable SOA runtime
Rest assured that applications and data are safe and that you
can eliminate lost business opportunities with near-continuous uptime
for mission-critical applications.
- Extensible communication services
Increase your return on investment and improve the flexibility
of your business by making application services more reusable and
accessible to new users in new ways.
- Effective application management
Focus resources on innovation instead of maintenance, and reduce
the costs of managing your environment with effective and easy-to-use
management tools.
The following articles catalog the most notable new and changed
features, routing you to appropriate information for learning more
about each one.
Skip ahead to the details that interest you, or continue reading
this topic to obtain a higher level view first.
Simple, rapid development and deployment
Improve
time to value and make the most of existing technology skills with
easy-to-use features designed to get you to production fast. Key features
include:
- WebSphere Application Server Toolkit to help you create, test,
and deploy applications; including a rapid-deployment feature for
testing applications in the Version 6.0.x runtime environment
- Tight integration with Rational tools for additional application-building
functionality
- Java Server Faces—a framework that eases the development of Java-based
Web applications
- Service Data Objects—a data-centric, disconnected, XML-integrated,
data-access mechanism that provides a source-independent result set
Secure and scalable SOA runtime
Rest assured
that applications and data are safe and that you can eliminate lost
business opportunities with near-continuous uptime for mission-critical
applications.
Extensible communication services
Increase
your return on investment and improve the flexibility of your business
by making application services more reusable and accessible to new
users in new ways.
- Powerful messaging engine. JMS support enables applications to
exchange messages asynchronously with other JMS clients by using JMS
destinations (queues or topics)
- Extensive Web services support, which makes it easier to integrate
applications inside the enterprise as well as externally with customers,
partners and suppliers
- Tight integration with WebSphere MQ for diverse environments
- Ability to plug in the WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus for service
mediation
Effective application management
Focus resources
on innovation instead of maintenance, and reduce the costs of managing
your environment with effective and easy-to-use management tools.
- Web-based administrative console
- Java Management eXtensions (JMX)
- Tivoli Performance Viewer
- Tight integration with Tivoli software
Improved platform consistency
This
is the first release in which all platforms have been made available
at the same time with the same feature-functionality. Common code
and delivery enhance the mobility of applications. You can now deploy
your applications on the platforms best suited to your needs without
delay or trade-off.
WebSphere
Application Server for z/OS, Version 6.0.1 combines the new and enhanced
features of WebSphere Application Server Version 6 for distributed
platforms with the reliability and availability of the zSeries and
S/390 products. Exploitation of the zSeries Application Assist Processor
(zAAP), a specialized Java processor for zSeries, may drastically
reduce the total cost of running new Java workloads on the mainframe.
By integrating with the IBM eServer zSeries portfolio of hardware
and z/OS software assets and exploiting the qualities of service of
the platform (such as close proximity to data, intense scalability,
and stalwart security) WebSphere Application Server for z/OS, Version
6.0.1 provides the premiere application server environment.