What is new for developers

This version contains some new and changed features for application developers. For example, WebSphere Application Server traditional v9 is adding support for Java Platform, Standard Edition 8, (Java SE 8 ) as its default platform.

• Overview: IBM WAS Developer Tools for Eclipse Beta

  WAS Developer Tools for Eclipse is a lightweight set of tools for developing, assembling, and deploying Java EE, OSGi, Web 2.0, and mobile applications to WAS Liberty and traditional. The documentation describes how to install and use WAS Developer Tools for Eclipse along with supported programming models and server tasks.

• Java SE 8 in WAS traditional V9

  WAS traditional is adding support for Java Platform, Standard Edition 8, (Java SE 8) as its default platform support. Java SE 8 includes new features such as Lambda expression support and virtual extension methods, a more understandable date and time API, and improved security. Java SE 8 offers support for WebSphere applications to use available Java features and standards.

• Developing JSP files

  WAS traditional supports the JSP 2.3 specification, which simplifies the construction of user interfaces and enables Expression Language (EL) version 3.0.

• Developing JSF files

  WAS traditional supports the JSF 2.2 specification from the product run time to ease the development of Java-based web applications. Use Apache MyFaces 2.2, or our own implementation.

• Servlet 3.1 feature functions

  WAS traditional supports the Servlet 3.1 specification from the product run time to ease the development of Java-based web applications. The new specification includes the following features:

  Asynchronous I/O

  A feature that enables an application to relinquish control of a thread when a read or write becomes blocked, thereby enabling an increase in server efficiency.

  Upgrade processing

  A feature that enables a client and a server to agree on a protocol other than http for client-server communication.

  Large post data

  A feature that allows the application to receive more than 2GB of post data and send more than 2GB of response data.

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