"WebSphere Application Server 5.0 awarded 'Best Application Server' for its tight integration with tools, smooth application deployment, and granular management."
” InfoWorld Magazine , December, 2003
As IBM's flagship J2EE application server product, WebSphere Application Server Version 5 (WAS V5) contains more than five year's worth of stress- tested code providing a comprehensive set of functions for building high-performance, highly scalable Web applications. Its strengths are clearly its wide range of support for J2EE, HTTP, and database components , its flexibility in deployment and clustering options, its scalability, and its performance. It excels as the base for high-volume, interactive, transaction-oriented Web applications often required by many enterprises . This chapter describes the features of WAS V5. Appendix A gives further WAS V5 details; Appendix D discusses some of the new features of WAS V6. At the time this book was written, WAS V5 was the latest version available.
