| First Thoughts: WebSphere 7.0 Beta |
IBM has begun the WebSphere 7.0 Open Beta program. Here is a snippet from the email notice:
The first thing I noticed about this release is the VMWare images. IBM has included SuSe images with WAS 7 previously installed. Just download the images, point your VMWare Player or Server at them, and test drive WAS 7. (Hint: root password is ‘password’.) I hope this means that IBM will be releasing other WebSphere based applications as VMWare images for evaluation, such as WebSphere Portal. After starting my standalone Profile and visiting the Admin Console, I was struck by how similar to the WAS 6.1 console the WAS 7.0 console is. There was quite a bit of change from WAS 5.1 to WAS 6.0 and some marginal change in WAS 6.1. But, it seems that WebSphere has stuck with the same layout. That’s very good news for companies that rely on manual deployment. However, there is cause for concern. The following MBeans have been removed:
Of course, this might simply be an oversight that the Open Beta program is meant to address. Or, it appears the JMS aspects of the Service Information Bus have been removed. We’ll do some sleuthing on our end to see where they went to. But, this marks a change in how IBM has done WebSphere releases in the past. In fact, they still have WAS 4.0 MBeans in WAS 7.0 (e.g., WAS40ConnectionPool, WAS40DataSource). Heck, they still have it in the Admin Console, too!
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  written by Kris, May 29, 2008
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