WebSphere Application Server - Express

An affordable, ready-to-go solution to build dynamic Web sites and applications quickly

WebSphere Application Server Express helps you deliver efficient business applications to speed response and cut costs.

Leverage the latest technologies such as Java EE 5, Web 2.0, Web services support and integrated tooling to quickly build the applications and services you need at a lower cost. Start up is also simplified with easy-to-use integrated wizards.

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• Java EE 6 programming model: Compliance with the latest Java EE specification which delivers ease of use and productivity enhancements and improves iterative development cycles for testing applications over previous version of the specification.

• Support for Java Platform, Standard Edition 6.0, including the latest performance, security, and reliability enhancements delivered by the IBM Java SDK 6.0 (J9 2.6) to accelerate Java application innovation.

• OSGi Applications programming model: Rapidly build, deploy, manage, and maintain modular applications using Java EE and OSGi technologies through versioned, isolated, and reusable OSGi bundles.

• Web 2.0 Mobile and programming model: Deliver richer user experiences and extend the reach of enterprise applications to desktop web and mobile web applications to improve customer satisfaction.

• Java Batch programming model: Reuse existing skills to quickly and cost effectively develop, deploy and manage batch applications.

• XML programming model: Enable application developers to simply and rapidly process XML data and documents using World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) open-standards-based XML technologies.

• Service Component Architecture (SCA) programming model: Increase reuse and accelerate innovative application delivery and management in a SOA.

• Communications Enabled Applications (CEA) programming model: Simply and rapidly deliver rich and interactive user experiences by adding communications capabilities, like click to call and cobrowsing, to web applications.

• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) programming model: Develop, deliver, and manage powerful large-scale mission-critical converged communications services and applications.

• Dynamic Scripting programming model: Speed the development and delivery of situational applications using dynamic scripting languages. Available as a separate optionally installable Feature Pack for Dynamic Scripting which supports WebSphere Application Server V8.0, V7.0, and V6.1.

• Rapidly develop RESTful web applications through support for RESTful views of EJB applications and support for Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java (CDI) with JAX-RS.

• Accelerate development speed through the separately available IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software, with integrated programming model support for building and testing applications for WebSphere Application Server.

• Enhance reuse and extend application asset life when integrating SAP Software, Siebel Business Applications, Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, and PeopleSoft Enterprise packaged applications with a WebSphere Application Server application. A development and unit testing license to WebSphere Adapters V7.5 is provided with WebSphere Application Server to speed application integration and development.

• Realize greater TCO with performance enhancements to Java EE applications, OSGi applications, SOA applications, product startup times, application server creation times and installation times for typical business critical large applications.

• Simplify local and centralized install and maintenance with automated prerequisite and interdependency checking for both distributed and z/OS environments using IBM Installation Manager.

• Reduce disk footprint requirements through enhanced component install granularity to optionally select whether to install WebSphere Application Server components, such as thin clients, EJB deploy and language packs

• Reduce developer time and effort during the edit-compile-debug development lifecycle with monitored directory-based install, update and uninstall of Java EE applications.

• Enhanced operational efficiency and business agility through ability to administratively extend OSGi Applications-based running applications with new functionality without changing the application artifact, to enable independent application extension and evolution as business needs change. Additionally, update a running OSGi Applications-based application by only impacting those bundles affected by the change, enabling rapid update of deployed OSGi Applications.

• Save time on problem determination and uncover potential performance bottlenecks by using the new High Performance Extensible Logging (HPEL) binary log and trace framework.

• Increase administrator productivity through automated cloning of nodes based on existing node configuration, job manager updates to manage profiles, and improved ease of locating and editing configurations

• Achieve enhanced high availability for messaging applications through improved integration with IBM WebSphere MQ and enhanced transactional integrity through tighter IBM DB2 integration.

• Reduce the cost of deploying and managing geographically dispersed applications through Flexible Management features in WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment to centrally administer applications across WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Application Server - Express and WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment environments.

• Simply administrative tasks related to multi-component applications through WebSphere Business Level Applications

• Improve time to value and reduce risk of down time through migration support for WebSphere Application Server V6.0, V6.1 and V7.0 configuration information using command-line tools and the GUI-based Configuration Migration Tool. Additionally, accelerate application migration from alternative application servers and from WebSphere Application Server V5.1, V6.0, V6.1, or V7.0 to WebSphere Application Server V8.0 using the separately available, no charge, WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit.

• Lower risks through end-to-end security hardening enhancements including security updates defined in the Java EE 6 specifications, additional security features enabled by default and improved security configuration reporting.

• Improve ease of use and control through automation that allows administrators to copy a security domain, along with users and groups, at the global level

• Enhance security and auditability for applications requiring distributed and z/OS system access through the ability to use z/OS System Authorization Facility (SAF) security to associate a SAF user ID with a distributed identity.

• Improve security and ease of use through the simplified exchange of user identity and attributes in Web Services using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Token through WS-Security SAML Token Profile 1.1.

• Achieve faster time-to-value when delivering single sign on web services- based applications though ability to generate SAML tokens, request SAML tokens from an external Security Token Service (STS) and propagate SAML tokens in SOAP messages using the Web Services Security application programming interfaces (WSS API).

• Improve component reuse and agility through ability to configure a web service application to interoperate with multiple endpoint services, each with potentially different configuration requirements, through specifying multiple policy sets and bindings specific to each endpoint service.

• Improve security and interoperability through ability to generate and consume tokens using WS-Trust Issue and WS-Trust Validate requests for JAX-WS Web services that use Web Services Security. As a result of these requests, the login module issues, validates, or exchanges tokens with a WS-Trust Security Token Service providers, such as IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager.

• Minimize cross-site scripting vulnerabilities using new HTTPOnly browser attribute for single sign-on applications to prevent client-side applications from accessing cookies.

• Achieve greater ease of use through administration, and security enhancements for Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) based applications.

• WebSphere Application Server Datasheet (364KB)

• Analyst White paper: Important Considerations in Selecting an Application Server – by Sageza Group

  The paper offers insight into what should be the most important criteria and considerations when selecting an application server and compares server offerings from BEA, Oracle, and IBM against these criteria.

• Redbook: WebSphere Application Server: Planning, Concepts, and Design

  This IBM® Redbooks® publication discusses the concepts, planning, and design of WebSphere® Application Server environments.

• Redbook: WebSphere Application Server Technical Overview

  This IBM Redpaper™ publication discusses the runtime server component of WebSphere Application Server.

• Online Demos: WebSphere Application Server

  A technical overview of WebSphere Application Server with multiple animated demonstrations.

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