The Sun Java System Web Server is the ideal "corporate standard" for organizations with diverse Web development skills. The Java System Web Server supports Web services, JavaServer Pages and Java Servlet technologies, Microsoft Active Server Pages, PHP, and CGI. New licensing changes in version 6.1 provide for free, unlimited use for internal development and testing. The combination of these two features creates a single, cost-effective deployment platform for all of your Web applications.
Free for Development
With Java System Web Server 6.1, internal development and test licenses are free.
Extensive Web Technology Support
Web services and XML
Available via the Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP), this free toolkit for the Java System Web Server allows Java developers to build and test XML applications, Web services, and Web applications with the latest Web services technologies and standards implementations:
XML and Web Services Security v1.0 (Early Access 3)
Java technologies
The Java System Web Server includes a fast, in-process, pluggable Java virtual machine (JVM) implementation and supports the following Java specifications:
Java Servlet 2.3 and JavaServer Pages 1.2 specifications
Seamless Java DataBase Connectivity (JDBC)
JDBC connection pooling
Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI)
JSP and Servlet Caching
Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS)
Microsoft Active Server Pages
The Java System Web Server includes, free-of-charge, Java System Active Server Pages. This plug-in to the Java System Web Server adds support for:
Microsoft Active Server Pages 3.0
Microsoft VBScript 5.5
Microsoft JScript 5.5
Microsoft ADO 2.0
ODBC, and includes pre-bundled database drivers for Oracle, Sybase, IBM Informix/DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and dBASE.
Java System Active Server Pages also supports XML, which provides developers with the ability to incorporate pages using the Document Object Model (DOM) and HTTP features of MSXML 1.0 into their applications.
PHP
The Java System Web Server is compatible with the open-source scripting language PHP:
For reliable, high-performance PHP processing, Zend (the creators of PHP) offers the PHP Enabler, an NSAPI plug-in using the FastCGI architecture. More information and downloads.
CGI
The Java System Web Server bundles a Perl interpreter, which makes it possible to run CGI programs that are written in the Perl programming language.
