New in WAS v7
WAS V7.0 highlights...
- Java EE 5.0, including EJB 3.0 and JPA 1.0
- Java SE 6
- Rational Application Developer
SOA run time
- Fully secured environment out of the box.
- High Availability Manager
- Clustering framework for workload balancing.
- Multiple security domains.
- Fine-grained admin security
- Security auditing service
- WebSphere Proxy Server hardened for DMZ
Extensible communication services
- Web services support
- Messaging engine asynchronous message exchange
- Tight integration with WebSphere MQ
- Ability to plug in the WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus for service mediation
- SIP servlet support for real-time collaboration
- WS-I Reliable Secure Profile support
- Policy Sets for quality of service definition
- JAX-WS engine
- Administration of messaging engine with new wizards and administrative tasks
- Enhanced integration with WebSphere MQ
- SIP infrastructure enhancements
Application management
- Industry-leading, flexible, and scalable systems management capabilities
- Web-based admin console
- Java Management Extensions
- Tight integration with Tivoli software
- Reduced overhead of stand-alone server administration through the administrative agent console
- Increased scale of administration through the job manager console
- Library of sample scripts to perform common admin actions on Version 6.1 and V7.0 systems
- Business-level applications to aggregate application models.
- Management of DataPower appliances through the admin console
Subtopics
New features for administering applications and their environments
New features for securing applications and their environment
New features for developing and deploying applications
New features for monitoring
New features for tuning performance
New features for troubleshooting 
Related concepts
Release notes - IBM WAS
Guided activities for the admin console
Related
Specifications and API documentation
Deprecated, stabilized, and removed features
New for installers
New for administrators
New for security specialists
New for developers
New for troubleshooters 
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