Feature Pack for Web 2.0

The Feature Pack for Web 2.0 is an optionally installable product extension for IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Version 6.x that offers targeted, incremental new features that can make your Web applications running on WebSphere Application Server easier to use.

This feature pack extends Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by connecting external web services, internal SOA services, and Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) objects into highly interactive web application interfaces. To reduce information technology (IT) costs and speed time to market, the Feature Pack for Web 2.0 provides a supported, best-in-class Ajax development toolkit for WebSphere Application Server.

Ajax is an open technique for creating rich user experiences in Web-based applications that does not require additional browser plug-ins. Ajax interfaces result in increased customer satisfaction and line of business productivity by streamlining end-user interaction with Web-based applications.

New feature New feature:  Feature Pack for Web 2.0 V1.0.1.1 provides a Java API for developing Representational State Transfer (REST)-based services. IBM® JAX-RS provides an implementation of the JAX-RS specification. IBM JAX-RS has equivalent functionality to Apache Wink 1.1.1 and some additional extensions. By using JAX-RS technology, REST applications are easier to develop, easier to consume, and easier to scale when compared to other types of distributed systems. IBM JAX-RS includes the following features: newfeat
New feature New feature: Feature Pack for Web 2.0 V1.0.1.1 includes Dojo V1.5, which provides the following benefits:newfeat
New feature New feature: AjaxProxy in Feature Pack for Web 2.0 V1.0.1.1 provides the following new features:
  • Support for multiple passthrough proxies
  • Support for DIGEST and NTLM authentication schemes in case of passthrough proxy
  • Connection timeout for waiting threads while connecting to server
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New feature New feature: Feed samples have a new sample application that demonstrates how IBM JAX-RS can be used for reading/writing of Atom or RSS Feeds, as well as implementing APP (Atom Publishing Protocol) based services.newfeat

RPC adapter supports access to more flexible set data types when accessing data through the support for subclass conversion.

Feature Pack for Web 2.0 highlights:

With Ajax, the interaction model for Web applications has become more robust, like desktop applications, with continuous interaction and improved usability. Some of the benefits of adding Ajax capabilities to your applications include:

Unlike other rich Web user interface approaches, Ajax applications use standard browser features and do not require browser plug-ins.

JAX-RS is a collection of interfaces and Java annotations that simplifies development of server-side REST applications. JAX-RS is a Java API for developing REST applications quickly. While JAX-RS provides a faster way of developing Web applications than servlets, the primary goal of JAX-RS is to build RESTful services. JAX-RS 1.0 defines a server-side component API to build REST applications.

Functionality

The following new technologies in Ajax client run time exist:

The following new technologies in Java libraries exist:

The two Ajax samples packaged for ease-of-use in Eclipse 3.2.2 development environment demonstrate the enhancements that Ajax adds to user experience.

Supported platforms:
Prerequisite Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) include one of the following products:



Related information
IBM Education Assistant: WebSphere® Application Server Feature Pack for Web 2.0
Building Dynamic Ajax Applications Using WebSphere Feature Pack for Web 2.0
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