On October 28, 2002, Sun announced the availability of the
Sun ONE Application Server 7, Platform Edition and Standard
Edition. The Sun ONE Application Server 7 product, tightly
integrated with the new Sun ONE Studio Enterprise Edition 4
Update 1 and Sun ONE Application Framework 2.0, is a newly
architected application server that has many new features
that enhance the developer experience for creating,
assembling and deploying web applications. This new version
of the application server is J2EE 1.3 compatible. In
addition the Sun ONE Application Server 7 provides the basis
for an integration platform with built-in support for web
services standards such as SOAP and WSDL, plus tools and
support for the J2EE Connector Architecture.
Sun ONE Application Server 7, Platform Edition is free for
development and deployment on all major operating systems
and Sun ONE Application Server 7, Standard Edition, which
provides remote management capabilities, is available for
$2,000/CPU.
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