WAS Packages 6.0 Vs 6.1

Packaging

WebSphere Application Server is available in multiple packaging options.

WebSphere Application Server - Express V6.0

à Single Server environment.(No Clustering or multi server management)

à J2EE 1.4 support

àMedium-sized business

àContains Rational Web Developer application tool

à Doesn’t handle EJB and JCA

à Limited to 2 CPU’s

WebSphere Application Server V6.1 (Base)

àSlightly differs in packaging and licensing

à Contains Application Server toolkit

à Includes a trial version of Rational Application Developer

àUnlimited CPU’s

WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6

àExtends Base version

àClustering capabilities

àEdge Components which provide high performance and availability (Caching Proxy and Load Balancer)

àHA for distributed configurations

àLarge Enterprise applications

àScalability, Availability and Performance

àWeb Server plug-in supports weighted WLM

àAll V6 application servers have the same core and base functionality

àWebSphere Application Server - Express V6 node can be upgraded to a WebSphere Application Server V6 node(.Can be done without any software upgrades .Only a paper license upgrade is required)

àWebSphere Application Server- Express V6 and WebSphere Application Server V6 node can be federated into a WebSphere Application Server - Network Deployment V6 cell (Can be done without any software upgrades .Only a paper license upgrade is required)

Differences b/n WAS Version

WAS 5: J2EE 1.2/1.3 support

               JDK 1.3 support

                Web Services based on Apache engine

               

WAS 6.0: J2EE 1.2/1.3/1.4 support

                   JDK 1.4 support (JDK 1.4.2)

                   Web Services based on J2EE 1.4

                    High Availability Manager

                    Java Based Messaging Engine

                    EJB 2.1, JMS 1.1, JCA 1.5, Servlet 2.4, and JSP 2.0

                    Supports Java Server Faces (JSF)

                    Creates Archive of the existing WAS configurations and the archive can be          

                    used to create new configurations. 

                    Profiles and all profiles use same WebSphere binaries(Less storage)

                    Node groups

                    Service integration functionality provides both message-oriented and service      

                    Oriented applications 

WAS 6.1: J2EE 1.2/1.3/1.4 support

                    JDK 5.0 support

                    JSF-a framework for Web applications  

                    Integrated Console

                    Security changes