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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October 2006
October 31, 2006
category: Main
We just reported our earnings for Q1. The way this works (for those that don't already know), we issue a press release to the news agencies after the markets close, then Mike Lehman (our Chief Financial Officer) and I host a conference call to provide color and context. Financial and other analysts from around the marketplace dial in, our VP of Investor Relations walks through the...
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October 30, 2006
category: Developers
Add to the NetBeans IDE everything you need to immediately start writing, testing and debugging service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications using XML, BPEL, and Java web services. Design scalable and architecturally sound applications by leveraging the UML modeling capability. (The UML modeling functionality is currently still in Beta and is available for evaluation only from the Beta...
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October 30, 2006
category: Developers
Get a head start on developing service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications. Join us for this recorded half-hour webinar to learn how to build composite
applications using BPEL orchestration and XML tooling. With these capabilities,
you can build, edit, and analyze real-world schemas easily.
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October 30, 2006
category: Developers
Check out the new Mobility Pack, Profiler Pack, Enterprise Pack, C/C++ Pack (Beta 3), and a technology preview of the Visual Web Pack. NetBeans 5.5 supports the Java EE 5.0 platform, including the Java Persistence, EJB 3 and JAX-WS 2.0 specifications.
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October 30, 2006
category: Developers
Q&A with Scott Violet, client architect for the Swing Toolkit Team at Sun Microsystems
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October 28, 2006
category: Developers
Welcome to the Enterprise Java Technologies Tech Tips for October 28, 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: The Java Persistence Query Language, EJB 3.0 Interceptors and Tech Tips Survey
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October 25, 2006
category: Developers
Showcase your web app by adding the "Powered by" affinity mark to your website. It's a component and you can get it by
auto-updating.
FInd out how to download and import the component in this tutorial.
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October 25, 2006
category: Developers
Sean Brydon reminds us of this still very relevant JavaOne talk on how to build a web application on the Java EE 5 platform. Discussed are the design choices and decisions made for the new Java Pet Store 2.0.
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October 25, 2006
category: Developers
Have you been working with Java SE 6? Do you like what you've seen? Would you like to help spread the word? We're looking for some good stories about Java SE 6 in the Real World.
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October 25, 2006
category: Developers
Sean Brydon reminds us of this still very relevant JavaOne talk on how to build a web application on the Java EE 5 platform. Discussed are the design choices and decisions made for the new Java Pet Store 2.0.
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October 24, 2006
category: Main
We seem to have struck a chord with the unveiling of Project Blackbox last week. And given some of the early reactions, I thought I'd answer a few of the questions that have surfaced, then point everyone to a video Dave Douglas, the VP in charge of the program put together to talk about our motivations/priorities. First, the questions...
Q: Why'd you paint the prototype Blackbox...
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October 24, 2006
category: Developers
Winston Prakash blogs on how to collapse the Table Row Group. Includes a small downloadable project.
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October 24, 2006
category: Developers
John Brock blogs on use of the JavaScript property sheet in Java Studio Creator. His example is a simple pull-down list with associated image that changes upon selection.
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October 22, 2006
category: Java Technology
Status report on my effort to revive the mozilla pluglet project.
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October 20, 2006
category: Main
For a limited time, VMware subscribers* can receive 10% off industry-leading Sun Fire x64 servers, including the Sun Fire X4100, X4200 and V40z servers. This powerful combination delivers the speed and reliability you need to launch virtualization initiatives with confidence.
Offer Ends February 1, 2007
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October 20, 2006
category: Developers
The following topics are covered in this issue: New BigAdmin XPert Session on ZFS, Second Installment of Our Series on ZFS, New Security Certification, Deploying Wikis to Sun Java System Web Server 7.0, Part 1: JSPWiki, Tuning Tool for CoolThreads Technology (CoolTuner), Configuring Solaris Cryptographic Framework and Sun Java System Web Server 7 on Systems With UltraSPARC T1 Processors, and...
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October 18, 2006
category: Main
In this latest release of Java Platform Standard Edition, Java SE 6, there are features and functionality that developers can take advantage of immediately without making any changes to their applications. Take a tour of the newest release, as Bill Curci highlights enhancements in diagnostics and monitoring, XML and web services, database support, native look and feel, and more.
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October 18, 2006
category: Main
As I've been saying for a while, our customers - more specifically, a segment* of our customers - face a diversity of tough challenges. What does the CIO in midtown Manhattan do when she runs out of roof space or power? How does an aid agency deliver basic connectivity to 5,000 relief workers in a tsunami stricken metropolis? What does an oil company do when they want to move high...
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October 18, 2006
category: Main
17 Oct 2006 - Project Blackbox is a prototype of the world's first virtualized datacenter--built into a shipping container and optimized to deliver extreme energy, space, and performance efficiencies.
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October 18, 2006
category: Developers
Read the first in a series of introductory articles about new projects that make developing interactive and dynamic web applications easier.
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October 17, 2006
category: Main
17 Oct 2006 - John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun's systems group, will review Sun's three-pronged approach to helping customers virtualize their data centers.
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October 16, 2006
category: Main
16 Oct 2006 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced it has completed its acquistion of Neogent, Inc. The acquisition of Neogent will allow Sun to extend its leadership position across the identity management platform and improve its ability to offer customers fixed-price and packaged identity management offerings that are repeatable and predictable with significantly reduced...
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October 16, 2006
category: Main
In a few years, large companies may no longer purchase and deploy enterprise software applications. Sound incredible? Welcome to the SaaS revolution and its promise of predictable costs, rapid time to value, and optimized IT resource allocation.
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October 16, 2006
category: Main
For those that have been leaving comments, I first want to say I appreciate your time and energy. I read them all (both gruff and gracious).
But let me try to clarify a simple point.
I was talking to the CIO of a large financial institution last week. He told me he was in the midst of building out two new datacenters, spending $250,000,000 (yes, a quarter of a billon) on one, more than...
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October 16, 2006
category: Developers
(See intro for a background and caveats on these coding advice blog entries.)
If you've been coding in C, you've probably picked up the habit of initializing all your fields:
char *foo = NULL;
int bar = 0;
This is necessary, because in C, memory can be left uninitialized, so there's no telling what value foo will have before it is assigned something.
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October 16, 2006
category: Developers
Read the first in a series of introductory articles about new projects that make developing interactive and dynamic web applications easier.
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October 15, 2006
category: Developers
After you've dropped a web service method onto a table you may want to change what the table displays. David Botterill blogs on how to find and change the "types" returned.
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October 13, 2006
category: Main
Flexible access to your applications and data securely from anywhere, at anytime, from virtually any device. NOW over 40% OFF!
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October 13, 2006
category: Developers
In this free-wheeling QA, Charles Ditzel, Sun partner area architect, discusses helping partners make the transition to Java platform applications. In addition, he also compares the NetBeans IDE and Eclipse.
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October 10, 2006
category: Main
An executive from a mobile phone company recently told me the feature most requested by buyers in their fastest growing geography (India) was an LED flashlight. Not a camera, but a flashlight. Edison would never have guessed (obviously). Nor that electricity would one day be on airplanes, lunar landers or deep sea submarines.
Nor would we have imagined that network connectivity and...
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October 10, 2006
category: Developers
Java Studio Creator is 1 of 6 strategies: Do it Yourself, Use a Client-Side JavaScript Technology Library, Use a Client-Server Framework, Do the Wrap Thing, Go Remote, Go All Java Technology.
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October 10, 2006
category: Developers
Choose 1 of 6 strategies: Do it Yourself, Use a Client-Side JavaScript Technology Library, Use a Client-Server Framework, Do the Wrap Thing, Go Remote, Go All Java Technology.
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October 10, 2006
category: Developers
No company on earth had more speakers on the inaugural AJAX World speaker faculty than Sun, including Greg Murray, Servlet 2.5 Specification Lead, now the AJAX architect for Sun...
committed to making sure that developers and IT architects are aware how AJAX is agnostic as to what server-side language is being used, be it Java, ColdFusion, PHP, .NET, Perl or whatever.
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October 10, 2006
category: Developers
There's more than one way to do it with the Java EE 5 SDK and related tools. These hands-on articles detail four approaches by examining a series of NetBeans 5.5 projects based on a single example. The first two articles are available now: Hands-On Java EE and Creating an AJAX-Enabled Bookstore Application, A Do-It-Yourself Approach.
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October 10, 2006
category: Developers
No company on earth had more speakers on the inaugural Ajax World speaker faculty than Sun, including Greg Murray Servlet 2.5 Specification Lead, now the Ajax architect for Sun.
committed to making sure that developers and IT architects are aware how Ajax is agnostic as to what server-side language is being used, be it Java, ColdFusion, PHP, .NET, Perl or whatever.
Read the article.
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October 09, 2006
category: Main
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 8:30a.m. PDT: Join this online Sun Expert Exchange Q&A and ask your own questions on the new Sun Fire UltraSPARC IIIi servers, Netra systems for telcos and OEMs, Sun Java System Identity Manager 7.0, and security solutions in Sun StorageTek products. Find out how this new Sun technology can help you reduce costs, improve performance and security, and streamline...
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October 06, 2006
category: Developers
Let's dispel some odd rumors of late: Java works great on Vista. But let's not stop there; let's also dive into some of the challenges that Vista presented for us to make Java work well.
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October 05, 2006
category: Developers
Deliver feature-rich, cross-browser Internet applications using JavaServer Faces and this one-stop guide.
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October 05, 2006
category: Developers
This tutorial describes how to add the power of AJAX to JavaServer Faces components with some help from the DOJO toolkit.
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October 05, 2006
category: Developers
CVR's latest blog reviews a number of Web 2.0 Applications running on Sun Java System Web Server.
For the details, check these blogs: Deploying JSPWiki by Sriram (and see the Companion Arcticle);
JAAS Login Configuration for JSPWiki) by Joe; and Running jMaki, by Sabada.
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October 04, 2006
category: Main
The collective IQ of San Francisco has risen this week, with the arrival of nearly 4,000 Sun "customer engineers" from across the globe. Customer engineers encompass a very broad community at Sun, one that includes systems and support engineers, product developers, and a diversity of other technical functions all focused on supporting customers.
In the spirit of perfect timing, my speech to...
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October 04, 2006
category: Developers
How to use DTrace in conjunction with Sun Studio tools to understand, analyze,
and debug software applications.
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October 03, 2006
category: Main
To commemorate the Web's 15th anniversary, Sun Inner Circle has assembled 7 Practical Ways to Web 2.0 -- a collection of technologies and strategies available today that comprise a bona fide Web 2.0 system.
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October 03, 2006
category: Main
I've been an officer of a public company for a while, and I've had access to confidential information for a good while longer. And I'm used to holding my tongue on issues that'd be deemed material to Sun's financial performance. Like a pending acquisition or big sale, or data related to how our quarter's going. In a public company, there are very strict laws...
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October 03, 2006
category: Developers
Read our tutorials in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, or French. The AJAX Map Viewer tutorial has been recently updated, and there is a new tutorial on Hibernate. Tip: Our international sites are linked on the bottom left of our home page.
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October 02, 2006
category: Developers
There are some very good detailed technical explanations of Comet already, but it seems there is some room for a basic discussion of what it is about, what it is good for and how it jives with AJAX.
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October 02, 2006
category: Developers
I've been playing around with images in servlets and applets lately ... and discovered some odd artifacts with how browsers treat images.
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October 01, 2006
category: Developers
Cool Music Search, NetBeans 101, Cool Stack for Solaris
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October 01, 2006
category: Developers
Learn about getting Sun certified and discover the Java technologies
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