Websphere Application Server

IBM WebSphere Application Server is the industry’s market leading foundation for building, deploying, reusing, integrating and managing applications and services

Choose an IBM WebSphere Application Server configuration to suit your business needs

Your business faces tough challenges in

Highlights
■ Unparalleled performance delivered by optimized runtime performance resulting in fewerprocessors ■ Rock-solid security provided with out-of-the-box security configurations offer peace-of-mind ■ Application reuse and Integration enables re-use of applications and services and makes them accessible to new users in new ways ■ High performance SOA environment provides a fast, secure, scalable and reliable environment that enables development and application efficiencies ■ Simplification fordevelopers offers enhanced support for standards, emerging technology and a choice of development frameworks ■ Intelligent management delivered through simplified infrastructure offers flexible and effective application control and runtime efficiency

today’s global economy. Competition is becoming more intense. You can’t keep pace by simply enabling content and applications to be accessed overthe Web. Your business requires an agile, flexible, solid foundation for service oriented architecture (SOA) to align the advancements of business and IT. The WebSphere® Application Server family provides developers and IT architects with a choice of innovative, performance-based foundations for building and deploying all types of SOA applications and services, from business-critical and keyenterprisewide applications to the smallest departmental-level applications. This

choice allows for balancing key considerations such as security, scalability and manageability with cost and simplicity in homogenous or, especially, mixed environments. IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 expands on previous versions by delivering complete Java EE 5 support and certification, Web services enhancements,and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 and Web 2.0 Feature Pack support plus a range of features that can help improve productivity and efficiency. New management and administration features deliver application control and efficiency through runtime provisioning and

flexible management. Built on the industry-leading performance of past versions, WebSphere Application Server V7 further enhancesperformance by increasing data center efficiency through workload consolidation. Developer-focused features simplify the development environment and increase developer productivity. Security enhancements strengthen your ability to address vulnerabilities. High Performance SOA Environment Anticipate and adjust to a constantly changing environment. WebSphere Application Server V7 provides a fast, secure,scalable and reliable environment that enables development and application efficiencies so that businesses can do more with fewer resources.

WebSphere Application Server configurations WebSphere Application Server V7 supports the broadest range of platforms in the industry, helping provide assurance that your applications can be built to run on the platform that makes sense for your business.Table 1 describes the key features and functions of each WebSphere Application Server configuration, so that you can choose the configuration that best fits your current business strategy—and so that you can be prepared to grow your solution as your needs evolve.

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WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 2.1
Optimized for: Developers or businesses with deep Java skills that needquick access to open source technology to accelerate deployment of low-complexity projects with low transaction volumes

WebSphere Application Server Express, Version 7

WebSphere Application Server, Version 7

WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, Version 7
Large enterprises that need advanced management, automated performance optimization and near-continuous availability for...