This latest edition of Sun’s Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server uses a new reference architecture that scales to more than 100 CPUs, and provides 99.999% availability, Sun said in a statement yesterday.
The application server’s reference architecture provides for scalability on Solaris Red Hat, Hewlett Packard Co’s UX 11i, and Windows.
Sun appears to be upgrading the Enterprise Edition of its application server that was originally launched in September 2003, and that featured high-availability clustering for real-time database access using technology acquired with Clustra Systems in 2002. That application server scaled to 24 processors per system.
Wider web server support is also included in this release, with Sun wrapping in the Java System web server, Apache Tomcat, and Microsoft’s IIS, along with broader database interoperability with support for Oracle, IBM, Sybase, PointBase and Microsoft’s SQL Server.
Until yesterday, had been was on the 8.0 iteration for its application server family, having launched Java Application Server Platform Edition 8.0 in April – the first of three expected products. Sun was unable to explain the reasons for apparently updating Enterprise Edition 7.0 instead of simply pressing ahead with changes for Enterprise Edition 8.0, expected later this year.
Sun also, yesterday, launched a Web Services Developer Pack (WSDP) 1.4, providing Java developers access to latest web services and web services security standards. WSDP 1.4 is updated to include the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) organization’s Basic Profile 1.1 with Attachments Profile 1.0, Web Services Security, XML digital signatures with Java Specification Request (JSR) 1.5 and XML message encryption and authentication.
Tomcat developers can also deploy to Sun’s application server and Sun’s Java System Web Server.
