New MySQL adopters, and maybe even more seasoned users, should visit the NetBeans Website, which is hosting a tutorial on creating a simple web application that connects to a MySQL database server. The tutorial, which is expected to take users about 30 minutes, also covers some basic ideas and technologies in web development, such as JavaServer Pages (JSP), JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL), the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API and two-tier, client-server architecture.
Tim Marsland identified the usually overlooked connection between Open Source Virtualization and Project Indiana in his talk at Australian Sun Tech Days as residing in the distro builder, the technology that translates the recipe for a particular distribution, along with its functions and capabilities, into a set of interdependent packages able to perform those functions.
Project Darkstar has published a roadmap covering the next year or so to summarize the work currently being done for the next release, and the core technology development team wants to hear what the community at large thinks about its projected development path.
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is the basis of Sun's technology DReaM that has been contributed to the Open Media Commons initiative. Project DReaM is an initiative to develop an open DRM solution and reference architecture for multiple domains (media, documents, enterprise, personal, etc.). Four white papers have recently been released detailing the project's goal, licensing and specification, among other aspects.
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