What’s New in the 8.2 Release

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.