In response to the latest security vulnerability in the Microsoft
Windows operating system, the MSBlast Internet worm, Sun is opening
early registration of Project Mad Hatter. Project Mad Hatter, to be
formally launched in September at the SunNetwork Conference, is an
open standards-based desktop from Sun that offers enterprise customers
a secure and cost-effective desktop alternative to Microsoft Windows.
It includes all the desktop applications necessary to migrate users off
the Windows and Office platforms and onto a more secure and stable
platform.
Since the launch of Sun's Network Computing in February of this year,
the company has managed to close several deals with industry-leading
businesses. Sun hopes these deals demonstrates a commanding position in
the low-cost computing market, and the significant demand for Sun's
low-cost products in the marketplace.
The international standards organization, OASIS (Organization for the
Advancement of Structured Information Standards), has elected four
members to its Board of Directors. Newly-elected members include John
Borras of the United Kingdom Office of e-Envoy and Eduardo Gutentag of
Sun. Jim Hughes of Hewlett-Packard and Chris Kurt of Microsoft were
both re-elected by OASIS members.
Sun Microsystems Australia and Musica Viva Australia were recently
awarded the "Outstanding Partnership of the Year Award" and "Bytecraft
Commitment Award" by the Australian Business Arts Foundation (AbaF).
The awards acknowledged the creative arts programs and business results
achieved by Sun and Musica Viva during their 12-year partnership.
Sun Trunking 1.3 link aggregation software is currently available
with support for the Solaris Operating Systems (Solaris OS) 7, 8
and 9 on Sun GigabitEthernet, SunFastEthernet and Sun Quad
FastEthernet adapters. Sun Trunking 1.3 software allows
customers to aggregate up to four Sun GigabitEthernet ports or up to
sixteen 10/100 Sun FastEthernet ports into a single virtual link
(trunk).
Sun has recently introduced SunForum 3D, a software product
designed to substantially increase the performance of the sharing of 3-D
(OpenGL) applications over a network. The solution allows for a new
class of collaboration for enterprises or organizations that are
involved with the use of 3-D applications.
Sun and several JAIN Community members are sponsoring a free, full
day seminar on August 26 at the Sun office in McLean, VA, focusing on how
Java technology is moving into the world of communications. Topics
include performance-oriented Java platforms, VoIP (Voice over Internet
Protocol) technology, presence, instant messaging, Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP) and call processing.
This two-day event in early September offers sessions from the Sun Code Camp program such as Developing Real World Services using Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) and Developing Wireless Applications using MIDP 2.0, WMA and MMA. There will be a Java Jacket giveaway and sponsor pavilion, case studies and sponsor demonstrations.
The Software Development Conference and Expo, designed to offer
attendees critical business development training, will be held
September 15-18, in Boston. The event aims to provide useful
information on how to increase productivity through the addition of
best practices, quality design and proven management techniques to a
software application.
An upcoming conference on the vulnerabilities of uniform, tamper-proof
ID systems and data sharing will be offered by CardTech/SecurTech. The
event will address a range of issues from the Common Access Card to the
improvement of border and passenger security. The conference,
"Building Trust Through Identification Technologies," will be held
September 8-10, in Arlington, VA.
The Web Services Edge 2003 West conference aims to offer attendees a
full range of keynote speakers and technology program sessions. Sun's
Java University will be just one of the features, offering
code-level training from experts. The event will be held in Santa
Clara, CA, from September 30 to October 2.
As the microprocessor industry accelerates at a tremendous pace,
despite weak economic conditions, the 16th annual Microprocessor Forum (MPF)
aims to be the premier venue to gauge industry trends and meet key
industry players. The forum will be held October 13-16, in San Jose,
California.
Increasing the value of the Sun Fire V480 server to customers, Sun
is now including 1.05 GHz UltraSPARC III processors and 73 GB
internal FC-AL disk drives in all new standard configurations of the
Sun Fire V480 server. Customers can upgrade existing 900 MHz Sun Fire
V480 servers to run at 1.05 GHz.
Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now available in the Sun
Fire V60x server and Sun Fire V65x server. These Sun Fire servers are now on the Red Hat Hardware Compatibility List. The price of 512 MB memory X-option and the similar XATO option has been reduced by about 15 percent.
Sun StorEdge Resource Management Suite software maximizes storage
network investments and increases operational efficiencies with
management capabilities that are flexible, intuitive and proactive and
are built on standard Web technology. Features and benefits include
proactive management of application availability and storage service
levels.
Sun is transitioning the DLT8000, SDLT 220 and DLT/SDLT HVD technology
for the Sun StorEdge L25 and L100 tape libraries. There is no
direct replacement. Also being transitioned is the DLT8000 drive option
for the Sun StorEdge L1000 tape library. The last order date is October 31, 2003. The DLT8000 Flexipack is also being transitioned.
The latest update to the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) uses
the GNOME open-source graphical interface. Stephen Shankland, writing
for CNET News.com, recently examined the operating system's newly
incorporated interface. He noted that Sun's version of UNIX system, which
has been overhauled, now permits users to opt for GNOME over the
long-time interface: the Common Desktop Environment (CDE).
Seven Web application mini-tutorials are available to help new users of
the NetBeans IDE develop sample Web applications using the IDE.
The topics covered in these mini-tutorials include Web module group,
page directives, scope, scripting elements, custom tag library, HTTP
sessions, front controller servlet, composite view, the use of the
IDE's HTTP monitor and more.
Jakarta Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine
that enables free form queries and is written entirely in the Java
programming language. It is an open source project and is available for
free download from Apache Jakarta. Author and Ant developer, Erik
Hatcher, provides an introduction to Lucene and discusses the indexing
and searching features that make up the Lucene API.
Linux, UNIX and Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) users will
receive media and playback support capabilities from a new open source
media player offered by RealNetworks. The new player will have the same
capabilities as the RealOne Player currently available for Mac and
Windows systems.
Sun's recent white paper, "Using Version Control Systems With Sun
ONE Studio 5, Standard Edition," tries to provide a comprehensive
description of how to manage Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications and Web service applications using the Version Control System (VCS) integration facility. Sun ONE Studio was formerly known as Forte for Java.
Developers wishing to combine C and C++ code in their programs can find
a valuable resource at developers.sun.com. The article "Mixing C and
C++ Code in the Same Program," by Stephen Clamage, Sun ONE Studio
Solaris Tools Development Engineering, provides helpful tips,
solutions to common problems and information on portability issues.
To improve the performance of your application, use the Sun ONE
Studio Performance Tools to identify events such as the number of times
a floating point operation was completed or the number of cycles that
the processor was waiting for data from memory. Darryl Gove, Compiler
Performance Engineering Group, Sun, presents a how-to on the Sun
Developer Web site that explains how to use hardware performance
counters of the UltraSPARC III Cu with the Sun ONE Studio
Performance Tools.
Sun has released maintenance updates for two
vulnerabilities in certain Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE)
products. They involve the Sun ONE Application Server (formerly
iPlanet Application Server) software 6.5 and Sun ONE Web Server
(formerly iPlanet Web Server) and allow source code to be seen or
allow data to be decrypted.
If you have a Sun Fire 15K server or a Sun Fire 12K server,
the Sun BluePrints document by Lee Lustig of Sun Professional
Services offers preferred practices to quickly
reference while planning an implementation and to successfully manage
and maintain the server environment. Topics covered include dynamic
reconfiguration, physical environment details, system controller and
more.
For a resource on installing multiple operating systems on an x86
machine, specifically how the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS)
(x86 Platform Edition) can coexist with other operating systems on a
single x86 machine, see Mariusz Zynel's Web site, "Multi-booting
Solaris and other operating systems." Two variants of installation are
discussed: multiple operating systems on a single hard disk drive and
on separate hard disk drives.
The Mobility, Security, Scalability and Performance track at this
year's SunNetwork Conference aims to teach attendees how to develop
highly scalable and secure, high-performance services that can be made
available anywhere, via any device. The track will examine how to make
valuable information as mobile as the people who use it.
The conference will feature sessions focusing on business issues such
as how CIOs can integrate IT with their company's business plan and
what primary business and technology challenges face digital
distribution.
This week's SunNetwork Conference section features a preview of a few of the Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions: Get an introduction to the java.net online community, learn more about Project Orion and the JAIN technology specification.
The Java Sound API specification gives users low-level support for
audio-operations such as audio playback and capture, mixing, MIDI
sequencing and MIDI synthesis. This is all provided in a framework that
is designed to promote extensibility and flexibility. The Java Sound
API is part of Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.3.0
and higher.
Developers who use Red Hat Linux 9 and Java 2 Platform, Standard
Edition (J2SE) 1.4.2 can now enjoy applications that start
faster and reliably scale to a larger number of threads. Red Hat Linux
9's new thread library, Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL), along with
the J2SE 1.4.2 platform's changes make these new benefits possible.
In the UK, owners of online sporting event content such as Sky Sports,
UK Betting and Rivals Digital Media, are adopting Java technology
to offer downloadable services to their mobile customers. With Java
technology, content can be dynamically updated. Java technology also
enables companies to establish a branded presence on user mobile phones
or handsets.
A simple naked objects project is discussed and explained by Brian
Coyner in an article on the Java technology Web site. "Introduction
to Naked Objects" looks at the how a simple address book can be
constructed using the Naked Objects framework. Code and illustrations
help to clarify the article.
Sun ONE Message Queue 3.5 software is an implementation of the
Java Message Service (JMS) specification. It is available in two
editions, Platform Edition and Enterprise Edition, on three platforms:
Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), Linux and Windows. The
Platform Edition provides the scalability and security features
necessary for large-scale, enterprise deployments.
In "An Overview of Sun ONE Web Proxy Server," a recent article by Sun's Jasen Meece and Marina Sum, a history of Web proxies and the potential
of Sun ONE Web Proxy Server is briefly described (This product was
formerly known as iPlanet Web Proxy Server).
The Sun ONE Identity Synchronization for Windows 1.0 software solution
is designed to enable synchronization of identity attributes such as
passwords between Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows 2000 Active
Directory and Sun ONE Directory Server environments (formerly the
iPlanet Directory Server). A user can change password values in one
directory environment, and it is automatically propagated to the other
authentication directory.
Adding My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition to a corporate portal can improve
its performance and ROI. It provides content from industry and trade
sources that has been aggregated before it is delivered to the portal
via a single feed. The My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition Provider 1.0
connects Sun ONE Portal Server to My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition.
Steps for integrating the My Yahoo! Enterprise Provider 1.0 with Sun
ONE Portal Server 6 are available on the Sun Developer's Web site.
ManageEngine Applications Manager 5 is a comprehensive enterprise
Java platform applications management product that provides
end-to-end monitoring and management. Via the Java Management
Extension (JMX) API and SNMP, it automatically discovers all the
WebLogic Servers (WLS) to be managed in the network. It empowers IT
administrators and staff to have complete control over business
applications.
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