Solution Capabilities

WebSphere Application Server delivers the security-rich, scalable, resilient application infrastructure you need for an SOA with:

• Full J2EE and J2SE compatibility

• Web services support including the addition of:
• WS-BA (Business Activity)
• WS-I BSP (Business Services Profile)
• WS-N (Notification)
• WS-RF (Resource Framework)
• WS-Addressing
  

• Multiple deployment options from single server to clustered, highly available, high-volume configurations
• Improved ease of use with simplification of the deployment experience via the rapid deployment feature and enhancements, such as install by non-root/non-administrator users
• Tight integration with IBM Rational tools, a highly productive development environment
• An enhanced Application Server Toolkit to provide basic support for the creation of new applications targeting WebSphere Application Server
• Broad cross-platform support

WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment provides a J2EE and Web services offering to deploy, integrate, and manage dynamic e-business applications. New and enhanced features deliver the highly available, critical application server for today's business needs. WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment now contains a single install image for the Application Server and Deployment Manager, making getting started quicker and easier.
WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment provides advanced Web services features, as well as:

• Enhanced workload management and dynamic caching and performance management tools, including Edge Components that distribute workload across multiple servers through sophisticated load balancing and clustering capabilities

• High Availability Manager enables highly available active server clusters by reducing the amount of time it takes to recover and service client requests

• Isolation of application servers to avoid single points of failure
• Network Deployment configuration provides the option for clustering, workload management, and backup clusters
• Backup clusters that mirror the primary server clusters; mirrored cluster support for Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) requests only
• Web Services Gateway that enables Web services invocation by users from outside the firewall with the benefit of robust security protection