IBM® WebSphere® Application Server is the leading software foundation for service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications and services for your enterprise. With IBM WebSphere Application Server, you can build business-critical enterprise applications and solutions and combine them with innovative new functions. The WebSphere Application Server family includes and supports a range of products that helps you develop and serve your business applications. These products make it easier for clients to build, deploy, and manage dynamic websites and other more complex solutions productively and effectively.

IBM WebSphere Application Server is the implementation by IBM of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) platform. It conforms to the Java EE 6 specifications as one of its supporting programming models. WebSphere Application Server is available in unique packages that are designed to meet a wide range of customer requirements. Each package has its own unique characteristics, but at the heart of all of them is the same runtime application server environment.

This IBM Redpaper™ publication provides an overview of the technical features of the runtime server component in WebSphere Application Server V8.5.

Table of contents

• Overview of WebSphere Application Server
• WebSphere Application Server packaging
• WebSphere Application Server concepts
• Workload management
• High availability
• Health management
• Administration and problem determination
• Messaging
• Service integration
• Security
• Application development and deployment
• Integration with other products

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Redpaper, published: Wed, 18 Jul 2012