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Archived Developer Articles
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07 Apr 2008
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New Ruby Developer Resource Center [19725]
Offers Access to Reference Materials, Downloads, Communities and More
There is a new Ruby Developer Center on the Sun Website designed to assist developers in obtaining basic and advanced resource information on Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JRuby, RubyGems, the NetBeans IDE, the Cool Stack Solaris AMP, the GlassFish application server, Java DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, as well as others.
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07 Apr 2008
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Extended Persistence Context in Stateful Session Beans [19519]
Handling Long and Intermediate User Interactions
The Enterprise Tech Tips blog has an interesting entry by Mahesh Kannan on extended persistence context in stateful session beans. In his tip, Kannan presents an application that uses a stateful session bean and an entity manager with an extended persistence context.
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07 Apr 2008
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"Debugging a JVM Level Hang Using dbx " [19600]
How to Access Information Needed to Debug
Find out how to use the Sun Studio tool dbx to debug a JVM crash on a Solaris x86 system in a recent SDN article. Poonam Bajaj explains how to work past the lack of product build information from the JVM by utilizing a dbx feature that allows you to 'load' and 'use' an alternate shared object rather than the one that was used in the process run.
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31 Mar 2008
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Security Engineers Turn DTrace into Reverse Engineering Tool [19538]
Re:trace Can Find Flaws in Both the Stack and Heap
Security researchers Tiller Beauchamp and David Weston with the engineering firm Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) have developed a way to turn DTrace into a rootkit-like, reverse engineering tool that can be deployed to quickly locate application vulnerabilities and create exploits.
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31 Mar 2008
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What Does the MySQL Acquisition Mean for Developers? [19553]
More Options and More Support
What will the acquisition of MySQL mean for developers? Rick Palkovic decided to present what he believes developers can expect from this open source database joining the Sun team in a Sun Developer Network article.
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31 Mar 2008
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GlassFish and MySQL Software Bundle [19709]
Leading Open Source Versions of Enterprise Java and Database
Developers were expected to be able to download GlassFish V2 with the MySQL Community Server 5.0 (5.0.51a) and MySQL JDBC driver 5.1.6 in a software bundle beginning March 26. This open source bundle will be made available for all the major software platforms including Solaris, Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
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17 Mar 2008
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Book Samples Available for Newly Published NetBeans IDE 6 Book [19591]
Zip File Can Be Downloaded for Adam Myatt's "Pro NetBeans IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition"
A Sun blogger has discovered a zip file that can be downloaded with all the samples in Adam Myatt's book "The Pro NetBeans IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition." This book is focused on enabling the rapid development of Java front ends of applications using API buttons, functions and features mostly based in the Java SE 6 platform.
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17 Mar 2008
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Free Download of NetBeans 6.1 IDE Beta [19671]
Features Rich JavaScript Editing Features, Tighter MySQL Integration, and More
NetBeans 6.1 IDE Beta is available now via download, offering features for JavaScript development and tighter integration with MySQL database capabilities.
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04 Feb 2008
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Chronicling the Installation of Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE) [19250]
Author Discovers Surprisingly Welcome Results
Although the Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE) 1/08 [19423]was just released, Senior SDN Writer Robert Eckstein's chronicle of his experience in installing SXDE 09/07 may still be of interest. He prefaces his piece by acknowledging that the greater part of his experience has involved work as a Java programmer rather than as an IT administrator.
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04 Feb 2008
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New Products Page on Sun Developer Network [19298]
Sun Resource Offers Links to Updates, Solutions, Forums, and Training Opportunities
This Sun Developer page provides a helpful summary of recent developments in the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS); Java technologies; database solutions; developer tools; and infrastructure software. There are links as well to developer forums; a section on recent updates; a spotlight on three Sun solutions; a section on featured products and links to training opportunities.
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