Many resources are now available from the JavaOne Conference, including podcasts and videos of presentations (if you've heard about the dancing robots and want to see them for yourself, go to article [18093] for the toy show link). See [18088] for reports and blog discussions about the conference.
See what the new JavaFX software can do - check out the demos in article [18094]. Also this week find a tutorial for using OpenJDK with NetBenas IDE [18092]. Jean Elliot, Senior Director of Java Software Product Marketing at Sun, talks about OpenJDK in [18097].
The recently announced Sun Streaming System can help companies deliver video cost effectively. Get the technical details of the components of the system in article [18108].
The Netra T2000 server now supports 146 GB hard disk drives, up from the 73 GB drives previously used [18105]. Also offering expanded capabilities are new LTO 4 FC tape drives for certain Sun StorageTek tape libraries [18107]; they offer 800GB/cartridge native capacity.
Sun is offering its customers the opportunity to buy three Sun Fire X4600 M2 servers for the price of two. The Sun Fire X4600 M2 server features multi-core AMD Opteron processors, which offer the perfect balance between performance and energy efficiency, along with its record as the world's fastest of its kind on SPEC's new integer throughput benchmark. The offer is good through July 11, 2007.
There are two current offers from Sun that deserve attention from users interested in getting the best value for their IT department dollar. The first is an offer that expires on June 12, 2007, through which Sun will offer the developer community a free 60-day trial of a complete Sun system for Java technology and Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) application development, as well as unlimited online developer support to answer programming questions and online developer training courses as two key features of Sun Developer Service Plans.
Get 50 percent off the list price of the Sun StorageTek SL8500 modular library system when you trade in your current qualifying tape library. Act soon: Offer ends June 29, 2007.
Here is a small selection of reports from around the web about the JavaOne Conference 2007 and which announcements and presentations made a big impression. The OpenJDK news has people talking, and the robots dancing on stage showed off what Java technology can do.
Sun's Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $3 billion of the company's outstanding common shares, according to a Sun press release. The repurchase plan is designed to increase shareholder value and reduce the dilutive effect of Sun's equity compensation programs.
The Sun Streaming System will form part of a new IPTV lab at India's Tech Mahindra facilities to offer IPTV services to the Indian and Asia Pacific markets. The lab will test the Sun Streaming System so potential customers, OEMs and ISVs can validate solutions.
Sun Java Web Server 7.0 comes out ahead in Apache's own benchmark test, besting Apache/2.2.4. Charlie Schluting wrote up his review, the results of which left him very favorably impressed with Sun Java Web Server.
System administrators, system engineers, and other technical personnel who must install, configure, or maintain any portion of Sun Java System Communication Services will find the course "Sun Java System Communication Services Administration" (MSG-2379) useful.
Version 6.0 of the Solstice Enterprise Manager software, Sun's carrier-class network and element management platform, has just been announced, with new features such as Java Low Level PMI APIs and Enhanced tracing/logging in daemon processes.
The new Sun N1 Grid Engine 6.1 is available and replaces the Sun N1 Grid Engine 6.0 and Sun N1 Grid Engine 6.0u4. This new release adds resource quotas, support for boolean expressions in workload allocations, support for Mac OS X on Intel and for Linux on the Itanium (IA64) platform.
Sun announces its new RoHS-compliant Netra T2000 standard configurations with a 146GB Hard Disk Drive that supports new 4GB memory DIMMs. At the same time Sun is transitioning standard configurations of the Netra T2000 with 73GB hard disk drive.
The Sun Streaming System is a massively scalable and cost-effective video delivery platform for IPTV and personalized video streaming. The system consists of the Sun Fire X4950 Streaming Switch, Sun Fire X4500 Data Server, Sun Fire X4100 server and Sun Streaming software. This article provides technical details of the switch and software.
The Sun StorageTek 5000 NAS Appliance offers users antivirus protection with its operating system's Anti Virus Agent that is designed to be more secure, less time-consuming and I/O-intensive than traditional scheduled on-demand scans. A Sun Developer Network article explains the workings of this Anti Virus Agent and its supported anti-virus software.
Sun StorageTek LTO 4 FC tape drives are now available for the Sun StorageTek SL8500, SL500 and L180/L700/L1400 tape libraries. LTO 4 tape drives offer increased native capacity and performance over LTO 2 and 3 drive technologies.
The Brocade FR4-18i Blade for the Brocade 48000 Director now enables FCIP capability (two 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports) for the Brocade 48000 Director. Customers can interconnect SAN islands for greater resource utilization and long-distance extension. SANs can be connected over distance using IP MAN/WAN networks.
Each week, we determine which articles have been most frequently referenced by logged-in subscribers to provide you with a list of the most popular articles for the last 4 issues. The top 10 articles for last week, Vol 111 Issue 2, were:
Save on Sun 19-Inch Flat Panel TFT LCD Digital Monitor [18038]
Optimizing IT Performance, Resource Utilization and Flexibility [18070]
New Scripting Language JavaFX Script Simplifies Content Authoring [18081]
Get Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 from Symantec Free [18039]
Achieving Optimal Performance, Scalability with Siebel-on-Sun Installations [18067]
NetBeans IDE 6.0 Preview Release Now Available [18075]
JavaFX Mobile - A New Mobile Phone Software System [18082]
Course Explains Configuring Sun StorageTek 2500 Arrays [18073]
Open ESB 2.0 Preview Available: Viable Alternative to Proprietary ESB Platforms [18083]
Sun Releases Java SE Platform to OpenJDK Community [18080]
Get the basics on Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) concepts and steps for achieving single sign-on (SSO) with the Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1 and the SAML 1.x Web Browser Artifact Profile in a Sun Developer Network article written by Vasanth Bhat and Marina Sum.
Start using OpenJDK with the NetBeans IDE by taking advantage of tutorials on the NetBeans Web Site that introduce users to the OpenJDK project sources and demonstrate how to work with them in its IDE.
The new SDN Share program allows developers to submit content, vote on other content and earn rewards points. Being a part of the SDN Share program gives you an opportunity to interact with peers while sharing your expertise.
The open source project of the Java Dynamic Management Kit (Java DMK) is now available on java.net as Project OpenDMK. The source code is based on Java DMK 5.1 patch level 3 code base. The open source version has the same features and code base as 5.1, but this first release of Project OpenDMK doesn't include the SNMP Runtime.
Through the Education Essentials Program, Global Education and Research
customers can get the Sun Ray 1G Ultra-Thin Client (US and APAC only Non-RoHS) at special education pricing. The promotion ends June 30, 2007.
A joint venture has been created in China to contribute hardware and software to a training center for automotive engineering. The partners making contributions include Sun Microsystems, UGS PLM Software, General Motors and EDS. The training center will be located at Tongji University in Shanghai.
Sun is offering the education and research communities three promotions, all of which expire on June 30, 2007. All three promotions feature special worldwide Education Market-only pricing. The featured items include the Sun Fire X4100 M2 and Sun Fire X4200 M2 servers; the Sun Fire V445 servers for Education Essentials Program; and the Sun Fire V215 and Sun Fire V245 servers in the Extension for Education Essentials.
If you missed any of the general sessions at this year's JavaOne Conference, Sun has set-up webcast replays for you to view at your convenience. Get the latest on Java technology from Sun executives and other industry leaders such as Oracle Corporation, Intel Corporation and Motorola Inc.
Jean Elliot, Senior Director of Java Software Product Marketing at Sun, expects the Java Development Kit (JDK), which is part of the open-sourced OpenJDK, to become much more visible. Elliot shared this and information on trends effecting the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 6, dynamic scripting add-ons for Java and more with Vance McCarthy of Integration Developer News in a recent interview.
Want to see what you can do with the newly announced JavaFX Script language? JavaFX Script is a declarative and statically typed scripting language with first-class functions, declarative syntax, list-comprehensions, and incremental dependency-based evaluation. Here are some demos and a Getting Started Guide.
The JDK6 Adoption Guide (Revision 1.0.8 stresses the emphasis Sun placed in developing this solution on ensuring its backward binary API compatibility. The authors also review the changes within each Java SE platform implementation that require special attention during upgrades.
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