As a key component of the Sun Java Enterprise System, the Java System Application
Server provides the foundation for delivering enterprise-class application services and
Web services. It offers a unique new modular architecture based on some of the industry’s
most proven, high-performance, and standards-compliant components — including proven implementations
of the HTTP server infrastructure, Java Message Service (JMS) software, and rigorous
support of the latest Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE platform) and Web services specifications
with J2EE 1.4 technology; Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.5 technology; and the
Java Web Services Developer Pack.
The Sun Java System Application
Server is available in three editions:
Platform Edition
Standard Edition
Enterprise Edition
The Standard Edition extends the
capabilities of the Platform Edition —
the industry’s first and most popular
production Java 2 Platform, Enterprise
Edition (J2EE) 1.4 application server
—to provide secure, remote, multiinstance,
multimachine management.
The Enterprise Edition further extends
the capabilities of the Standard Edition
to deliver the most economical platform
for deploying mission-critical applications
that require extremely high availability
and massive scalability.
The Java System Application Server is available
in three editions, each designed to provide
specific functionality for different usage
scenarios and service levels.
The Java System Application Server Platform
Edition brings J2EE technology into volume
markets, providing a high-performance,
small-footprint J2EE platform suitable for
broad adoption and embedding into thirdparty
systems and applications. It is completely
free of license fees for development
and deployment, with support available
for an additional charge.
The Java System Application Server Standard
Edition builds on the performance and ease
of use of the Platform Edition, extending
the capabilities into the data center. Support
for secure, remote, multimachine management,
massively scalable connection handling,
and request-level load balancing make
it a perfect fit for high-volume applications
and Web services.
The Java System Application Server Enterprise
Edition adds breakthrough clustering and
high-availability technology for J2EE applications.
Based on the patented Always-On
technology, the Enterprise Edition provides
enterprises and service providers with
extremely high quality of service for their
mission-critical applications.
Whether purchased as part of the Java
Enterprise System or separately, the Java
System Application Server Standard and
Enterprise Editions provide the lowest total
cost of ownership for customers who want to
develop, deploy, and support J2EE technology-based
and service-oriented architecture (SOA)
applications that require enterprise-grade
performance and scalability.
Key highlights of the Standard Edition
The Java System Application Server Standard
Edition 8.1 2005Q1 provides a complete J2EE
1.4 technology-compatible platform for developing
and delivering server-side Java applications
and Web services. The Standard Edition
builds upon and extends the industry’s first
and most popular production J2EE 1.4 application
server to provide secure, remote, multiinstance,
multimachine management for high volume
applications and Web services.
Core services
Provides load balancing of HTTP, RMI/IIOP,
and JMS clients as well as seamless generation
of load balancing configurations of
HTTPWeb requests
Enables automatic retries of failed requests
to other instances based on URL pattern
match
Supports administration of servers — both
locally and remotely
Provides a powerful and intuitive browser-based
management console to support
enterprise-wide deployments and administer
domains comprising multiple clusters,
instances, and machines
Offers full administration from a
command line interface, scriptable for
flexible management
Delivers secure remote Java Management
Extensions (JMX) specification-based monitoring
and management of J2EE server and
application components across clusters
Provides an SOA delivery platform, the first
to support the WS-I Basic Profile
Provides a complete Web services infrastructure
to develop and deploy Web services in
production, incorporating the latest Java
Web Services Developer Pack common components:
Java Architecture for XML Binding
(JAXB), Java API for XML Processing (JAXP),
Java API for XML Registries (JAXR), Java API
for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC), Simple Object
Access Protocol (SOAP), SOAP With Attachments
API for Java (SAAJ), and Web Services
Description Language (WSDL)
Supports Web Services Security (WSS):
Digital Signature and XML Encryption (to
sign and encrypt of SOAP payloads based
on OASIS and W3C standards)
Secure right out of the box — administration
infrastructure uses Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL) security; sensitive data in configuration
files has been encrypted in a secure keystore
Supports Java Transaction Service with two-phase
commit for managing database services
from the leading RDBMS vendors
Includes a high-performance JMS provider
Includes a high-performance HTTP server
with SSL security, delivering high performance
through an advanced multiprocessing,
multithreaded architecture; efficient use of
kernel threads; and sophisticated memory
management
Enhances performance of dynamic content
through Server-side HTML (SHTML) and
chunked encoding
Supports various security standards: SSLv2,
SSLv3, Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0,
X.509 certificates, PKCS #11, FIPS-140, and
168-bit step-up certificates
Provides virtual server support for hosting
multiple Web sites from a single instance
Interoperable out of the box with all Java
Enterprise System components, for example,
the Java System Web Server, Java System
Directory Server (for identity and access
management), and J2EE technology-based
Java System Portal Server
Provides certified compliance with the J2EE
1.4 Compatibility Test Suite
Built on the same platform that defines
the J2EE standard — J2EE 1.4 SDK
Reference Implementation source code
Assures the most rigorous J2EE standard
compliance — without risks of proprietary
lock-in
Supports a broad choice of operating systems
and databases
Includes bundled, high-performance JDBC™
drivers for database connectivity for development
and production
Supports the J2EE Connector Architecture for
access to enterprise information systems;
includes third-party J2EE Connector
Architecture-based products with a free
trial period
Key highlights of the Enterprise Edition
The Java System Application Server Enterprise
Edition 8.1 2005Q1 provides a high-performance,
scalable, and robust J2EE platform for
delivering enterprise-class application services
and Web services. First in the market with a
built-in and manageable session persistent
data store, it delivers the most economical
platform for deploying mission-critical applications
that require extremely high availability
(HA) and massive scalability. Its patented
Always-On technology provides fault tolerance
and automatic self-repair with five 9s (99.999-
percent) availability of session state for continuous
uninterrupted operation — even during
rolling online software and hardware upgrades.
Core services
Availability allows for failover protection of
Application Server instances in a cluster. If
one Application Server instance goes down,
any Application Server instance can take
over the sessions that were assigned to the
unavailable server. Session information is
stored quickly and is completely rederived
from the High-Availability Database (HADB)
persistence store. The HADB supports the
persistence of HTTP sessions, stateful session
beans, and single sign-on (SSO) credentials.
Delivers the first multinode failure resilient,
performant, and scalable solution with five
9s high availability. Provides fast parallel
persistence of session objects to the HADB’s
in-memory persistence store as well as
automatic continuous replication of data
across two nodes (minimum) for additional
redundancy. Wait time in processing J2EE
artifacts that require high availability is
minimized because distributed object cache
in memory is persisted to the database
asynchronously.
Provides the first manageable and distributable
HA solution, where the HADB persistence
engine can be off-loaded to a separate
tier of lower cost machines
Enables reduced TCO, improved management,
and isolation of failures by separating the
HADB replication from the Application Server
tier. There are no additional fees to process
the HADB on a separate tier from J2EE
Application Server
Supports failover of timer beans
JMS brokers are cluster-aware, providing
message service high availability and ensuring
that JMS semantics are adhered to — even
in a cluster (once only delivery to a message driven
bean)
J2EE development environment
Delivers high developer productivity through
tight integration with Sun’s Java Studio
Enterprise and Java Studio Creator development
tools
Includes a high-performance, container-managed
persistence (CMP) engine that
supports object-to-relational (O/R) mapping
Supports JavaServer™ Faces technology
to simplify building user interfaces for
JavaServer applications — 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
Supports ANT (Java technology-based
make files)
Supports third-party J2EE technology-based
software IDEs such as Borland JBuilder
Provides an assembly and deploy tool for
packaging and configuring new and preexisting
J2EE applications
Offers a migration tool (free download) for
easily migrating code from external and
previous editions of an application server
to the Java System Application Server 8.1
2005Q1
Provides the Application Verification Kit (free
download) to ensure portability by assisting
in the correct use of J2EE APIs
Delivers end-to-end high performance
The Java System Application Server delivers end-to-end high performance across a broad
spectrum of Web and enterprise application requirements, ranging from application logic
to presentation layer to connectivity for integration with enterprise and legacy applications.
The Java System Application Server provides the HTTP engine from the proven Java System
Web Server, ranked among the fastest in the world. It also provides the JMS engine from the
Java System Message Queue, delivering industry leading JMS performance. The Java System
Application Server performance has been proven to scale near linearly well beyond one
hundred processors with HA enabled.
The Java System Application Server includes a high-performance, container-managed persistence (CMP) engine that supports object-torelational (O/R) mapping. It supports intelligent
load balancing of Java Servlet components with third-party load balancing solutions. By
providing the service provider interfaces for the J2EE Connector Architecture, the Java System
Application Server is easily integrateable with high-performance J2EE Connector Architecture-based products for fast synchronous access to enterprise applications and data.
Platforms and Requirements
Operating systems and Platforms
Solaris 10, 9 and 8 Operating Systems (SPARC Platform Edition)
Solaris 10 and 9 Operating Systems (x86 Platform Edition)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (Update 2) and 3 (Update 1)
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Database servers supported:
Oracle8 i(8.1.7), Oracle9 i(9.2.0.3), and Oracle Database 10 g
Sybase ASE 12.5.2
Microsoft SQL Server 2000
IBM DB2 V8.1 SP3 and later
PointBase Network Server 4.8
Supports connectivity to any DBMS with a corresponding JDBC driver
Web servers supported:
Sun Java System Web Server 6.1
Apache Web Server 1.3, 1.4, and 2.0
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 and later
J2EE 1.4 compatible:
Components: J2SE 1.4.2_06 or J2SE 5.0,
Application and Application Client,
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 2.1, Java
Servlet 2.4, JavaServer Pages(JSP) 2.0,
J2EE Connector Architecture 1.5, JMX 1.2,
JMS 1.1, Java Naming and Directory
Interface (JNDI) 1.2, and Java Transaction
API (JTA) 1.0
Web Services:Java Web Services Developer
Pack 1.5, Java APIs for XML Registries (JAXR)
1.0, Java API for XML-based Remote
Procedure Calls (JAX-RPC) 1.1, SOAP With
Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) 1.2, WS-I
Basic Profile 1.0
Other:J2EE Deployment 1.1, J2EE
Management 1.0, Java API for XML
Processing (JAXP) 1.2, JavaMail 1.3, Java
Authentication and Authorization Service
(JAAS) 1.0, and Java Authorization Contract
for Containers (JACC) 1.0
