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Product overview and quick start
This section provides shortcuts to information for obtaining a high level understanding of the product, then getting started quickly.
- WAS roles and goals
There are several different computing roles that members of your organization might undertake when working with WAS.
- Fast paths for WAS
Use the paths in this topic to deploy applications quickly and easily. This topic provides links that pinpoint the relevant information for reaching your goals quickly. It also describes the audience roles and tasks assumed by this documentation. The fast paths in this topic are intended to help you gain a little experience. The fast paths do not showcase the advanced product features that some users need or want to use in their production environments.
- Release notes
Links are provided to a description of the new functionality, the product support web site, the product documentation, and to last-minute updates, limitations, and known problems for IBM WAS WAS v8s.
- WebSphere platform and related software
This topic provides information on other WebSphere and IBM products.
- Guided activities for the administrative console
The topic describes the guided activities that are available in the administrative console. Guided activities lead you through common administrative tasks that require you to visit multiple administrative console pages.
- Tutorials
This topic describes how to find tutorials and their accompanying samples, for learning how to accomplish your goals with the product.
- Access the samples
The product offers samples that demonstrate common enterprise application tasks. Many samples also provide instructions for deployment and coding examples.
- Use the administrative clients
The product provides a variety of administrative clients for deploying and administering the applications and application serving environment, including configurations and logical administrative domains.
- Specifications and API documentation
The WAS product supports various industry standards. This topic lists the specifications and API documentation supported in current and previous product releases.
- WAS architecture
This topic introduces the parts of the WAS.
- Deprecated, stabilized, and removed features
If you are migrating from an earlier release of WAS, you should be aware of the various features that have been deprecated, stabilized, and removed since v6.x.
- Assembly tools
WAS supports assembly tools that you can use to develop, assemble, and deploy Java EE modules.
- Web resources for learning
This topic familiarizes you with the many websites containing technical information for understanding and using your WAS product. A wealth of online information is available to complement the product documentation.