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WebSphere Application Server 5.0 (WAS5)
has been released on November 2002. This major
release could now compete with BEA Weblogic
7.0 and SunONE 7.0 in J2EE
1.3 application servers challenge.
As usually, IBM has modified the commercial
packaging. Some IBM third products such as Edge
Server are now provided, a new Express edition
is available, the database repository has been
removed and both WSCP and XMLConfig have been
replaced by WSAdmin. The following matrix might
help to understand versions and editions matching
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| WAS5
Express |
WAS5 |
WAS5
Network Deployment |
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Not J2EE 1.3 compliant :
It supports JSP/Servlets
and webservices only.
- Single JVM.
- Includes WSSD5 IDE.
- Pricing : $2000/CPU.
->
Homepage
This version suits for
Servlet/JSP development.
Use Tomcat4 + Axis
+ Eclipse2
instead, it's free.
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J2EE 1.3 compliant.
- WebServices support.
- Single JVM :
Load balancing is not
supported.
- WebSphereMQ included.
- WSAdmin support.
- WEB admin console.
- XML repository.
- Pricing : $8000/CPU.
- Matching IDE : WSAD5
-> Homepage
This version suits for
development and production.
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J2EE 1.3 compliant.
- WebServices support with
private UDDI repository.
- Multiple JVM.
- Load balacing support :
Edge server available
in XP
extension module.
- WebSphereMQ included.
- WSAdmin support.
- WEB admin console.
- XML repository.
- Pricing : $12000/CPU.
->
Homepage
This version suits for
production with high
availability requirements. |
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WAS4
AEs |
WAS4
AE |
| - |
-
J2EE 1.2 compliant.
- Single JVM :
Load balancing is not
supported.
- WEB admin console.
- XML repository.
- Matching IDE : WSAD4
- Pricing : $8000/CPU.
This version suits for
development and production.
More info about this
version here. |
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J2EE 1.2 compliant.
- Multiple JVM.
- Load balacing support.
- WSCP + XMLConfig support.
- JAVA admin console.
- Database repository.
- Pricing : $12000/CPU.
This version suits for
production with high
availability requirements.
More info about this
version here.
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| WAS3
Standard |
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WAS3 |
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Not J2EE compliant :
It supports JSP/Servlets
- Single JVM.
- Matching IDE :
WebSphere Studio
This version is no more
supported by IBM. |
- |
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Not J2EE compliant :
It supports JSP/Servlets
and EJB.
- Multiple JVM.
- Load balacing support.
- WSCP + XMLConfig support.
- JAVA Admin console.
- Database repository.
- Matching IDE : VisualAge
This version suits for
production with high
availability requirements.
This version is no more
supported by IBM. |
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Websphere
Application Server (WAS) and Java 2 Enterprise
Edition (J2EE) are now mature. With Servlets
2.3, EJB 2.0, JMS 1.0, XML, JDBC, JCA, some
"best practices" and more than 2GB
RAM, you rely on WAS5 to run enterprise applications.
WSAD5 IDE should suit for developement. It includes
WAS4 and WAS5 test environment but you will
need 1GB RAM if you plan to use it daily.
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12/10/2002,
JavaZOOM Team
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