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1.5 Related products<br />

<strong>IBM</strong> offers complementary software products surrounding <strong>WebSphere</strong><br />

<strong>Application</strong> <strong>Server</strong> that provide simplification for developers, enhanced<br />

management features, and a high performance runtime environment. Some of<br />

these are introduced in this chapter:<br />

► <strong>WebSphere</strong> <strong>Application</strong> <strong>Server</strong> Community Edition<br />

► <strong>WebSphere</strong> Extended Deployment<br />

► Rational <strong>Application</strong> Developer Assembly and Deploy V7.5<br />

► Rational <strong>Application</strong> Developer for <strong>WebSphere</strong> Software V7.5<br />

► Project Zero and <strong>WebSphere</strong> sMash<br />

1.5.1 <strong>WebSphere</strong> <strong>Application</strong> <strong>Server</strong> Community Edition<br />

<strong>WebSphere</strong> <strong>Application</strong> <strong>Server</strong> Community Edition is a lightweight single-server<br />

Java EE application server built on Apache Geronimo, the open source<br />

application server project of the Apache Software Foundation. This edition of<br />

<strong>WebSphere</strong> <strong>Application</strong> <strong>Server</strong> is completely based on open source code and<br />

available to download free of charge.<br />

Note: <strong>WebSphere</strong> <strong>Application</strong> <strong>Server</strong> Community Edition’s codebase is<br />

different from the <strong>WebSphere</strong> <strong>Application</strong> <strong>Server</strong>. It is not a different<br />

packaging option for <strong>WebSphere</strong> <strong>Application</strong> <strong>Server</strong>. It is a separate product.<br />

<strong>WebSphere</strong> <strong>Application</strong> <strong>Server</strong> Community Edition is a powerful alternative to<br />

open source application servers. It has the following features:<br />

► Brings together best-of-breed technologies across the broader open source<br />

community to support Java EE 5 specifications such as the following:<br />

– Apache MyFaces<br />

– Apache OpenEJB<br />

– Apache Open JPA<br />

– Apache ActiveMQ<br />

– TranQL<br />

► Supports the Java Developer Kit (JDK) from <strong>IBM</strong> and Sun.<br />

► Can be used as a runtime for Eclipse with its plug-in.<br />

► Includes an open source Apache Derby database which is a small-footprint<br />

database server with full transactional capability.<br />

► Contains an easy-to-use administrative console application.<br />

Chapter 1. Introduction to <strong>WebSphere</strong> <strong>Application</strong> <strong>Server</strong> <strong>V7.0</strong> 23

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