Wednesday May 17, 2006

What is Cool in Web Server 7 ?

Sun Java System Web Server 7 Technology Preview released today has many neat features. I will give you an overview on what is new. You can also look for blogs from my team members on the individual topics.

Web Server 7 has an all new, easy to use administration GUI and a comprehensive, secure and scriptable CLI support. Web Server also has full regular expression support of configuration files. With all this, you now have excellent management and monitoring support. The product also features robust cluster management and HTTP session failover. In addition, it supports 64-bit making it ideal for large scale deployment.

You need J2EE 1.4 webtier technologies? Yes, we have that too. Web Server 7 has out of box support for J2EE 1.4 web tier technologies including Servlet 2.4, JSP 2.0, JSF 1.1 and JSTL 1.1. It also features web services support by integrating JWSDP 2.0. Content publishers can not only publish and manage content using Web Server's WebDAV support. Now, they can also manage and manipulate access control using DAV Access Control support in Web Server 7. Security is always a concern and Web Server 7 has addressed this by supporting new features including Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), DoS attack awareness, cross-site scripting (XSS) detection and web services security (JSR-196). Its easy to develop and deploy on Web Server 7 as the product is also fully integrated with NetBean  5.0, Java Studio Enterprise 8.1 and Creator Developer Tools. It also supports third party technologies including PHP, Perl and Python. If you are already on an earlier Web Server product, Web Server's migration support can migrate you over to the Web Server 7, so that you can start using the new features.

Of course, all this is nice and great and leads you to wonder what is the price. What if I tell you its all FREE! Yes, free as in zero dollars. Web Server 7 is free for development and deployment. A license is required only for support and service. With out of box support for J2EE 1.4 web tier technologies, 64 bit support and parity with many Apache module features including mod_dav and mod_rewrite. Why not give it a try? There is also quite a bit of free support on the web through the software forums and developers resource. The team would love to hear your feedback.

So, download it and try it.  Lets us know what you think is cool and what we should improve on.

Posted by sabada ( May 17 2006, 06:22:15 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]