July 13, 2007
Enterprise Systems: The New Bounce in Suns Step. Dont look now, but Sun Microsystems Inc. has a new bounce in its step.
From its recent...
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June 24, 2007
Jazoon'07. Jazoon'07 brings together experts and users of Java and open source technologies from all...
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November 2006
November 30, 2006
category: Main
Want to narrow the gap between IT development and business processes? Big advancements in SOA platform and identity management technology can help you get there fast.
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November 30, 2006
category: Developers
My co-conspirators on Project Semplice, John Kline and
Herbert Czymontek, have both recently left Sun. Rest assured, I'm not going anywhere. But where does that leave Project Semplice?
Well, the spirit of the project was to support scripting on the VM. We started our research with BASIC, but the vision all along was to design things in such a way that we could support multiple...
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November 30, 2006
category: Developers
Click on image for full size. Some things to notice: semantic highlighting (for example, parameters are shown in different colors than local variables), code completion, mark occurrences (other uses of the length method under the caret is highlighted), ...
You'll see more at JavaPolis... and on this blog!
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November 30, 2006
category: Developers
What's all the fuss about open sores?
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November 30, 2006
category: Java Technology
Your data's on the desktop, and you've got a mobile. Not a problem. By combining an ME midlet with an EE servlet running on the desktop, you can retrieve desktop data, send it to the phone, and work with it there. Biswajit Sarkar offers a simple example of how this arrangement can work.
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November 29, 2006
category: Main
I remember a particularly unpleasant conversation with a Sun executive about a year ago. The introduction of our "eco-responsible" Niagara systems had just blown up a $250,000 purchase order from a big customer, replaced by a $25,000 Niagara (sorry, T2000) order. "You're killing me," he said, "are we trying to shrink or grow this place?"
What followed were some choice words about...
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November 29, 2006
category: Developers
What's the best way to introduce Ajax into your legacy application? This article series guides you through Ajax implementations, starting with writing the necessary code by hand, then using an open-source toolkit, and finally implementing JavaServer Faces components.
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November 28, 2006
category: Main
Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 10:00a.m. PST: How can you maximize system availability - and minimize risk - while keeping your systems up to date with the latest patches and upgrades? Simple - put Solaris Live Upgrade to work. Join our live Expert Exchange chat with Solaris OS engineers and ask your own questions on using Solaris Live Upgrade
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November 28, 2006
category: Java Technology
This "stupid question" is about the ability to put a private access modifier on a constructor, making it unavailable to other classes.
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November 27, 2006
category: Main
27 Nov 2006 - Sun at Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference
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November 21, 2006
category: Main
Business Intelligence is a solution that provides the high performance, massive scalability, and technological agility required to support your business needs. Listen to expert Claudia Imhoff in this short Net Talk discuss complete, customizable Business Intelligence solutions that provide the hard data for designing, implementing, and adapting successful business strategies.
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November 21, 2006
category: Java Technology
XML Signature is an important enabling technology for WS-Security, verifying that an XML document has not been altered since it was signed. In this article, Young Yang looks at how JDK 6's implementation of JSR-105 offers XML Signature technology to Java developers.
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November 20, 2006
category: Developers
When you need to generate a report, a chart, or a PDF file from a web application, you have many third-party products to help you accomplish your task, including the open source JasperReports framework. JasperReports is a reporting tool that outputs reports in HTML, PDF, XLS, CSV, and XML formats. This tutorial show how to integrate the JasperReports framework into a web application that you...
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November 20, 2006
category: Developers
Here is an easy way to turn all of javac's warnings on for your NetBeans project, and make its build fail if any warnings are found.
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November 20, 2006
category: Developers
The following topics are covered in this issue: Sys Admins: Take a Survey, and Get a Cool T-Shirt!, New Information Hubs on BigAdmin, New Device Detection Tool for the Solaris OS, What Time Is It? Are You Sure?, SAMP (Solaris, Apache 2, MySQL 5, and PHP 5) Setup for Solaris 10 OS and Solaris Express, Deploying IBM DB2 UDB V8.2.x in Containers in the Solaris 10 OS, The Sun Java System Message...
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November 18, 2006
category: Developers
Welcome to the Core Java Technologies Tech Tips for November 2006. Core Java Technologies Tech Tips provide tips and hints for using core Java technologies and APIs provided in the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). This issue covers Java Web Start Persistence and JList Striping.
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November 18, 2006
category: Java Technology
Welcome to the Enterprise Java Technologies Tech Tips for November 18, 2006. Here you'll get tips on using enterprise Java technologies and APIs, such as those in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE). This issue covers: Using Java Persistence With JavaServer Faces Technology, and Using a Model Facade
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November 17, 2006
category: Main
In the new global economy, speed-to-market is an essential component in getting, and staying, ahead of the competition. Sun Grid Rack System for High Performance Computing (HPC) concentrates on this critical need. In this brief Net Talk learn more about how implementation can mean agile deployment, higher quality, and easier management for your business.
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November 17, 2006
category: Developers
Michael Powers explores the mobile game space. Where are the games? What are the design constraints? What does it takes to be successful? Read Part 1 and be ready for the next installment in the series.
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November 16, 2006
category: Main
Did you miss the live event? Get the transcript from the Expert Exchange on upgrading your Sun technology and migrating from non-Sun platforms.
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November 14, 2006
category: Main
n a groundbreaking 1976 paper on public-key cryptography, Whitfield Diffie famously illustrated how people with no prior knowledge of each other could use a shared public key and private secret key to enable a secure communications. Now as chief security officer at Sun Microsystems, Diffie is responsible for ensuring that Sun remains on the forefront of security innovation. Sun Inner Circle...
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November 13, 2006
category: Main
A rising tide lifts all boats. If there were ever a philosophy that guided our decision making at Sun, it's that - the notion that an internet connected by freely available standards is more valuable, to Sun and our customers, than one defined by dependencies on proprietary technologies. Although the metaphor doesn't translate particularly well (I know, I've tortured translators...
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November 13, 2006
category: Main
13 Nov 2006 - Sun's Java Technology Web Event
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November 13, 2006
category: Developers
It seems I'm late to join the blogging party; just about everybody has covered the news already. In the unlikely
case that you haven't read about GPL'ed Java, read just about any blog on blogs.sun.com (and many on java.net). The main resource page is http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/.
We've got a special episode dedicated
to this on the Java Posse....
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November 13, 2006
category: Developers
Hallelujah! Java SE is now an open-source project, with the HotSpot VM and javac as its first sub-projects. This is great news for anyone interested in Java performance, as the world now has full-access to both the static (javac) and...
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November 13, 2006
category: Java Technology
The day that some never thought would come, has. Sun's Java SE and ME runtimes, and the GlassFish EE application server, have all been released under terms of the GPL. In this editorial, java.net editor Chris Adamson takes a look at the open source Java release and what it offers to the java.net community
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November 13, 2006
category: Java Technology
In this entry, Ed explains why server side frameworks are important, even in a world of Ajax and GWT.
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November 10, 2006
category: Main
Did you miss the live event? Get the transcript from the Expert Exchange on disaster prevention with the Solaris 10 OS.
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November 10, 2006
category: Developers
Learn how javaScript coupled with emerging Java technologies can improve your productivity by easily producing the next generation of rich, innovative web solutions.
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November 10, 2006
category: Developers
Ever wonder what's in a patch? Take a look inside a typical Sun Studio compiler patch that includes updated C++ shared libraries.
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November 09, 2006
category: Main
Data Warehouse Appliance Powered by Sun and Greenplum is a solution that combines Sun's new Sun Fire X4500 data server powered by AMD Opteron processors with Greenplum's massively parallel PostgreSQL in a single appliance. Listen to Luke Lonergan from Greenplum discuss how this solution is capable of analyzing hundreds of terabytes of business data faster and cheaper than any product...
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November 08, 2006
category: Main
At an interview last week with John Markoff, I made a statement that seems to have generated some concern over my sanity. I said, "I don't believe in thin clients."
Let me start by saying I started my technology career with a company that built client (ie, desktop) software. I care a lot about user experience. And for that reason, I've always thought the words thin client were...
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November 07, 2006
category: Developers
Doesn't at least one of the A's in AJAX stand for Applet? This blog explores some of the ways that we can get more dynamic behavior for applets, mixing with HTML, JavaScript, the DOM, and all that web stuff.
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November 07, 2006
category: Java Technology
Java 5.0's for-each loop saves keystrokes, but that's not all it does. It offers opportunities for compiler optimizations, as well as for subtle bugs from unboxing and null-handling. Nishanth Sastry has some strategies for getting the most out of 5.0's for-each.
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November 06, 2006
category: Main
Trade in a qualified Sun Fire UltraSPARC II based servers and receive double trade-in value up to 20%.
Offer ends April 1, 2007
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November 04, 2006
category: Developers
Sun partner area architect Charles Ditzel discusses the challenge of helping partners make the transition to Java platform applications and provides updates on Java tools.
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November 03, 2006
category: Main
I did an interview last evening with John Markoff, of pretexting fame, at the Churchill Club (a Silicon Valley community gathering). I'll point to the links as soon as they're up - I tried to hijack the interview to reverse roles, so I could interview John on what it was like to be snooped on (his response, "it wasn't the first time").
We talked about a variety of topics -...
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November 03, 2006
category: Main
Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at 10:00a.m. PST: If you're considering a refresh to your datacenter -- either upgrading your Sun technology or migrating from competing platforms -- questions are inevitable. Headaches aren't. Join the Expert Exchange to grill the Sun experts.
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November 03, 2006
category: Developers
As you're probably well aware of, there were several important releases this week. First, NetBeans 5.5 was
released. This has been covered extensively by other Sun bloggers
so I won't repeat the highlights here - just check it out if you haven't already.
Second, a number of add-on packs for NetBeans 5.5 were released. A pack is a cluster of plugins.
One of these is the
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November 03, 2006
category: Developers
This two-part demo shows you how to include Ajax in your web apps built
with Java Studio Creator. Part 1 or Part 2
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November 02, 2006
category: Main
2 Nov 2006 - Sun's 2006 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
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November 01, 2006
category: Main
It's Bill Vass back with the final installment in a series of letters I've devoted to what I'm calling the evolving IT stack. The individual IT components of this stack promise great rewards for today's enterprises, and taken together they offer enhanced hardware performance and utilization, easier integration, a more natural alignment of IT development with business...
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November 01, 2006
category: Developers
Jean Elliott, Sun's director of product marketing for the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE), discusses how to make optimal use of the platform and gives her call to action to migrate to Tiger.
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November 01, 2006
category: Developers
Using Regular Expressions, Actions, and Learn to Package and Deploy
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