WebSphere Application Server V8.0 Beta

Last week, the beta for WebSphere Application Server V8.0 went live and was announced by Dana Price on the beta forum. There were some initial issues over the weekend with the download, but that is fixed, so if you tried to download -- try it again now.

There is a download for Windows, Linux, AIX, z/OS, Linux for System Z, HP-UX, and Solaris.

You can find out about the features offered in the beta via the following links:

• Overall "What's New"


• What's new for Installers which includes a new unified installer and customization tools


• What's new for Developers with new servlet, EJB 3.1 JAXB/JAX-WS, JAX-RS, XML centric programming (XPath2/XSLT2/XQuery), SAML support as well as auto-deploy of apps in a monitored directory


• What's new for Administrators and Performance adding web service management support, high performance logging, and enhanced caching under JPA


• What's new for Security which adds security hardening


• What's new for Problem Determination

There are far too many features to list here on the blog, so hopefully the above gives you enough reason to give it a spin. See the InfoCenter for further information.

Go ahead, download the beta, try it out and leave feedback on the forum.