Web Services Feature Pack
IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Feature Packs are optionally installable product extensions that offer targeted, incremental new features.
IBM WAS V6.1 Feature Pack for Web Services extends the capabilities of Application Server V6.1 to enable Web Services messages to be sent asynchronously, reliably, and securely, focusing on interoperability with other vendors.
Programming model enhancements support standard, annotation-based models to develop Web Service providers and clients. A common set of binding rules for XML and Java. allow incorporation XML data and processing functions in Java applications, and a further set of enhancements helps you send binary attachments, such as images or files, along with your Web Services requests in an optimal way.
Management using Web Services profiles allows one to configure and reuse configurations, so you can introduce new Web Services profiles.
These configurations are captured in a grouping called Policy Sets which allows a user to select and associate with an application different qualities of service. These Policy Sets can be configured to just allow those capabilities within a given WS-Interoperability (WS-I) profile (thereby limiting/ensuring that the only configurable portions are just those that are desired). WS-I is an open industry organization chartered to promote Web Services interoperability across platforms, operating systems and programming languages.
What's offered in the WAS V6.1 Feature Pack for Web Services?
Support for new Web Services standards, including:
- Web Services Reliable Messaging (WS-RM)
- Web Services Addressing (WS-Addressing)
- SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM)
- Web Services Secure Conversations (WS-SC)
- New standards-based programming model support:
- Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS 2.0)
- Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB 2.0)
- SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ 1.3)
- Streaming API for XML (StAX 1.0)
For more information, see the Information center
To get the latest Web Services Feature Pack (support for JAX-WS, SOAP 1.2 and JAX-B) working, install the following in the correct sequence...
- Base WAS 6.1.0.0
- Web Services Feature Pack GA Release (which includes WAS 6.1.0.9).
- WebSphere Update Installer 6.1.0.13
- Interim EFIX PK53084
- WebSphere AppServer FixPack 6.1.0.15 and Web Services Feature Pack FixPack for 6.1.0.15