Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 9.0 2006Q1

# Features and Resources

The Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.1 is a J2EE 1.4 platform-compatible server for the development and deployment of J2EE applications and Java Web Services in large-scale production environments.

- What's New
- Key Features
- Resources

## What's New

Improved Administration: The Application Server supports remote secure management of complex multi-machine enterprise deployments using either a browser-based console or a scriptable command line interface.

- New Admin Console features include include a completely updated UI, an improved log viewer, a JNDI namespace browser, and integrated monitoring capabilities.
- JMX MBean API provides a rich management interface for remote, secure, programmatic administration and monitoring using JMX.

Improved Performance: Application deployment is faster, which makes iterative application development quicker and easier. The runtime performance of EJB components has also improved.

Expanded Platform Support: The Application Server supports additional operating systems, databases, locales, and hardware (See the Release Notes for the latest list of supported platforms).

Migration and Upgrade Tools: These tools enable you to verify J2EE applications for standards conformance and portability, help with migrations from other J2EE application servers (JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere), and aid in upgrading from previous versions of Sun ONE Application Server / iPlanet Application Server.

Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0 Support: The Application Server supports Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0, which includes enhanced management and monitoring features and many performance and scalability improvements.

JDBC Drivers: The Application Server includes DataDirect™ JDBC™ drivers for major databases. You can use these drivers for deployment.

Web Services Security: Container message security mechanisms implement message-level authentication (for example, XML digital signature and encryption) of SOAP web services invocations using the X.509 and username/password profiles of the OASIS WS-Security standard.

WS-I Profile 1.1: As mandated by the J2EE 1.4 specification, Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Basic Profile 1.1 enables interoperability for web services applications.

Backend Connectivity with iWay Adapters: Sun Microsystems resells and supports twenty-two iWay adapters to key backend systems (for example, SAP, Siebel, Oracle, CICS, and IBM MQ Series) to help customers leverage existing IT applications from the Application Server environment. These adapters support the J2EE Connector Architecture 1.5 specification and web services standards (SOAP), and include developer tools to reduce time to connect to backend applications.

Sun Java Enterprise System: As a key component of the Sun Java Enterprise System, the Application Server is tightly integrated with portal and network identity services.

Message Broker: The Application server includes an enterprise-class, clustering-capable message broker that provides messaging with high performance, availability, reliability, and scalability.

## Key Features

Java EE 5.0 Platform Support: This release implements all of the specifications covered by the Java EE 5.0 platform. For a complete list of the Java EE technologies included, see the Release Notes.

High Performance: The Application Server includes a high performance EJB container, Web container and services, and supports concurrent message delivery with the Sun Java System Message Queue software.

Scalability: The Application Server supports horizontal scalability through clustering of server instances and request load balancing. It also achieves class leading vertical scalability – supporting large multi-processor machines.

High Availability: The Application Server includes load balancing for HTTP, IIOP, and JMS clients; HTTP session failover support; EJB clustering and failover support; highly available EJB timers; distributed transaction recovery; support for rolling application upgrades; and a high availability data base for storing the transient state of J2EE applications.

JavaServer Faces 1.1: The Application Server now supports JavaServer Faces 1.1, which simplifies building user interfaces for Java Server applications. Developers can quickly build web applications by assembling reusable UI components in a page, connecting the components to an application data source, and wiring client-generated events to server-side event handlers.

JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library 1.1: The Application Server supports the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) 1.1, which encapsulates core functionality common to many JSP applications.

High Performance Message Delivery: This product supports concurrent message delivery with the Sun Java System Message Queue software.

Developer Tool Integration: The Application Server supports the NetBeans IDE and Sun Java Studio Creator.

## Resources

Sun Java System Application Server: For the latest information about releases, as well as general information such as white papers, see the main product page of the Sun Java System Application Server.

Sun Java Enterprise System: The Sun Java Enterprise System changes the enterprise software industry with a radical, new approach to how software is designed and developed, an approach that synchronizes IT investment with business priorities.

Sun Technology Forums: The Sun Developer Forums are interactive message boards for sharing knowledge and questions about technologies and programming techniques. The Application & Integration Servers forum has discussions related to the Application Server, and includes topics such as Migration and Installation.

Sun Software Support Service: Sun Software Support Service Standard contracts are available for purchase.

Release Notes and Product Documentation: The Release Notes, Installation Notes, and other product documentation are posted on docs.sun.com.

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