Good documentation on Installing/Configuring the sample applications for WAS8.0

Accessing the samples -->
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r0/topic/com.ibm.websphere.samples.doc/info/ae/ae/welcome_samples.html

The samples currently available in the Samples section of the WAS V8 Information Center demonstrate the following technologies: Service Component Architecture (SCA), Communications Enabled Applications (CEA), OSGi applications, XML, and Internationalization service

For instance servlet 3.0 sample can be found here

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r0/topic/com.ibm.websphere.samples.doc/info/ae/ae/sample_servlet30.html

Samples available

Here is a nice article by Philippa Rhodes that gives an overview of the v8 samples: 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/1107_rhodes/1107_rhodes.html?ca=drs-

Here is the v8.0 link to samples (you can access this by the above link as well):

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.samples.doc/info/ae/ae/welcome_samples.html