What’s New in the 8.2 Release

The Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.2 implements manynew features:

• J2EE 1.4 compatible.

• (Improved) Outstanding developer experiencewith NetBeans 5 and improved deployment speed, runtime footprint and serverstart up time. NetBeans 5.0 includes Application Server 8.2 as a defaultJ2EE runtime.

• (New) Superior throughput performanceand better scalability supporting multi core/multi threaded architecture.

• (New) Fast Infoset support improves webservices performance multiple folds.

• (New) Application Server 8.2 adds supportfor Red Hat 4 and My SQL 5. SeeHardware and Software Requirements, later in these notes, for a complete list of supportedoperating systems and database drivers.

• (New) Application Server 8.2 bundlesdeployment-ready Derby database, making it possible to develop and deployend-to-end J2EE applications.

• (New) Built-in JMS resource adapter makesconnectivity with backend systems even easier. Application Server 8.2 supportsconnectivity to IBM MQ Series and Sun's MQ Server.

• (Updated) Enhanced J2EE 1.4 blueprintsincluding demonstration of using Web 2.0 technologies like AJAX with Application Server 8.2.

• JavaServer Faces Support — Developers can quickly buildweb applications by assembling reusable UI components in a page, connectingthese components to a data source, and wiring client-generated events to server-sideevent handlers.

• Improved Administration Console — The Application Server 8.2 AdministrationConsole adds new look and feel with capabilities like JNDI namespace browser,JDBC Connection Validation, Deployment Descriptor Viewer, Error log viewerand improved monitoring.

• Web Services Security: Container message security mechanismsimplementing message-level authentication (e.g. XML digital signature andencryption) of SOAP web services invocations using the X509 and username/passwordprofiles of the OASIS WS-Security standard.

• JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library 1.1 Support: the libraryencapsulates core functionality common to many JSP applications.

• (Updated) Bundled J2SE 5.0_06.

The Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition is free for development,deployment and redistribution. Customers interested in redistribution shouldcontactSun OEM sales for a redistribution license. Sun providessupport at additional cost. If you would like to be contacted about licensingthe Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, fill outthis form.