If your business is looking for a complete scalable, and high-performance environment for Web applications, WebSphere Application Server is ready. A host of e-commerce offerings, such as personalization and wireless servers, that sit on top of WebSphere are available from IBM and third parties. Today's VAJ offers better integration with WebSphere Studio and WebSphere itself than earlier versions but could still stand improvement.
New wizards make creating session and entity beans a snap.
After creating EJBs, you'll need to package them as JAR files for transfer and import them into the application server. VAJ uses a repository for code management with role-based security and privileges. WebSphere Studio lets site builders integrate Web assets such as graphic files, HTML, Java Server Pages, and page templates with Enterprise JavaBean e-business logic. To get our test bookstore site up, we installed the included version of the IHS Web Server on the two server machines, which also installs the WebSphere connectivity plug-in automatically. This is a software mechanism that directs end-user page requests across application servers, providing load balancing and failover.