Features & Benefits

J2EE 1.4 compatible¹

Leverage the latest J2EE features such as EJB timers, standard tag library, and interoperable Web services in your application. Avoid proprietary lock-in and rework by using J2EE standards-based development model.

Developer productivity

The focus of the Platform Edition is developer productivity - it is a lightweight, small footprint run-time with fast deployment and excellent debugging capabilities. It has a powerful and extendable admin GUI and CLI interface supporting latest standards like JMX. The Sun Java System Application Server PE 8.2 is fully integrated with NetBeans by providing an out of the box environment for development, deployment and debugging of Web and enterprise applications and extends its advocacy for open source by supporting Red Hat Linux 4, MySQL 5 and Apache Derby.

Ideal platform for Web Services/SOA and Web 2.0-based applications.

Sun Java Systems Application Server PE 8.2 supports latest webservices and webservices security APIs making it an ideal platform for Service Oriented Architecture based web applications. (APIs include XML digital signature and encryption, SOAP invocations using X509, WS Security, WS Basic Profile, JAX-RPC, JAX-P, SAAJ and Fast Infoset). Integrated JavaServer Faces support for AJAX and Apache Derby makes it an ideal runtime for deploying next generation Web 2.0-based interactive applications.

Breakthrough Performance

Sun Java Systems Application Server PE 8.2 provides one of industry's best price/ performance with its robust, light weight architecture making it ideal for small to medium production environments handling hundreds of concurrent requests at any given time. Fast Infoset support improves webservices performance by a magnitude of 2x to 4x. Product also integrates one of the fastest JMS engine.

Free and deployable

Free product documentation. Free for development, production deployment, and redistribution. Production support is available from Sun Service.