5486websphere.fm Draft Document for Review October 18, 2004
644 IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries System Handbook
Advanced Performance Advisors and Request Metrics: Automatic features
that help enhance performance through tuning advice and monitoring
capabilities
Support for the JDK 1.4 client container is the first step toward J2EE 1.4
compliance
First production-level application server to support the June 2003 Board
Approved Draft of the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0, giving developers a head start
on interoperating across heterogeneous environments and enterprise
boundaries
Features
Industry-leading integrated support for key Web Services open standards makes
WebSphere Application Server one of the first production-ready Web application
servers for the deployment of enterprise Web Services solutions for dynamic on
demand business. This includes:
Native Java Messaging Services (JMS) provider
Single code base with multiple configuration options, including improved
systems management via browser-based administration and Java
Management Extensions (JMX)
With new packaging, your choice of deployment options, from simple
administration of single server to clustered, highly available, high-volume
configurations (Network Deployment)
Integration with WebSphere Studio Application Developer and WebSphere
Development Studio, both built on Eclipse, the open systems development
environment
Advanced Performance Advisors, which make suggestions on how to set the
most critical parameters to maximize performance
Improved administration of WebSphere applications via browser-based GUI
and XML configuration
Automated distributed systems management via centralized Deployment
Manager for simplified administration of clustered environments
The WebSphere Application Server - Network Deployment provides the items
from the previous list and includes:
Enhanced workload management and dynamic caching and performance
management tools that distribute workload across multiple servers through
sophisticated load balancing and clustering capabilities