The Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.2 2006Q1 implements many new features:
J2EE 1.4 Platform Support– This release implements all of the specifications covered by the J2EE 1.4 platform.
JavaServer Faces 1.1 Support– All levels of developers can quickly build web applications by assembling reusable UI components in a page, connecting these components to an application data source, and wiring client-generated events to server-side event handlers.
Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.6 (JWDSP) Plugin Support — All JWSDP plugins are now supported.
JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library 1.1 Support– The Application Server supports the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) 1.1, which encapsulates core functionality common to many JSP applications.
Administrative Tools– The Application Server includes a command-line tool and a browser-based Administration Console interface.
High Performance Message Delivery– The Application 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.
Admin Console GUI Enhancements– The Admin Console’s new capabilities include an improved log viewer, a JNDI namespace browser, and a GUI for monitoring.
Web Services Security– These container message security mechanisms implement message-level authentication (e.g. XML digital signature and encryption) of SOAP web services invocations using the X509 and username/password profiles of the OASIS WS-Security standard.
WS-I Basic Profile 1.1– This release implements Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Basic Profile 1.1 to enable interoperability for web services applications.
Migration Tool– The migration tool helps in moving applications running on other application servers such as JBoss, WebLogic and Websphere to this release of the Sun Java System Application Server.