New features
There have been many internal product improvements for efficiency in both resource management and administration time saving. The following table gives an overview of new enhancements to WAS realized in version 8:
| Feature/Capability | Description |
| Monitored deployments | New monitored directory-based application install, update, and uninstall of Java EE application. |
| HPEL | New High Performance Extensible Logging (HPEL) problem determination tools and enhanced security and administration features to improve administrator productivity and control. |
| Updated installation process | New simplified install and maintenance through IBM Installation Manager to improve efficiency and control. |
| Workload efficiency | Run the same workload on fewer servers, creating savings of 30 percent due to updates in the performance for EJB and web services. |
| Improved performance and high availability with WebSphere MQ | Messaging is a key part of any enterprise both in Java’s JMS and IBM’s specific messaging platform called WebSphere MQ. WAS continues to provide ease of integration with MQ. |
Security hardening Security domains have been improved to offer more secure protection for services provided by WAS.
Simplified exchange of user identity and attributes in Web Services using Security Assertion Mark-up Language (SAML) as defined in the OASIS Web Services Security SAML Token Profile Version 1.1.
SAML assertions represent user identity and user security attributes, and optionally to sign and to encrypt SOAP message elements.
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is a global consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business and web service standards.
Web Services Security API (WSS API) and WS-Trust support in JAX-WS to enable customers building single sign on Web services-based applications.
The WSS API supports Security token types and deriving keys for signing, signature and verification, encryption, and decryption.
Security auditing enhancements Auditable security events are security events that have audit instrumentation added to the security run time code to enable them to be recorded to logs for review.
Enhanced cookie support to reduce cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and also better support for security, for example, SSO (Single Sign On) and LPTA (Lightweight Third Party Authentication).
Enhanced security configuration reporting, including session security and Web attributes.
Additional security features enabled by default. Security enhancements required by Java Servlet 3.0. Java Authentication SPI for Containers (JSR 196)
support, which allows third-party authentications for requests or responses destined for web applications.
Configure federated repositories at the domain level in a multiple security domain environment.
Performance improvements JPA L2 cache and JPA L2 cache integration with the DynaCache environment.
New caching features functionality for servlet caching, JSP, web services, command cache, and so on.
Improved migration support Better support for migrating applications deployed to
WebSphere Application Server 6.0, 6.1, and 7.0.
JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)
The command line tools and GUI wizard have been improved.
New and upgraded providers for database connectivity support for JDBC.
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