This week includes a summary of the most popular articles from May and
June [13234]. Sun is expecting the market for mobile applications in
China to boom to US$1 billion [13170]. Sun is also creating a new
Web blog site so its own employees can better communicate both
internally and to the rest of the developer community [13223].
The JavaTM section details the free download of the JavaTM
Application Server Standard Edition 7 2004Q2 [13222]. The FOSS section
looks at the new open source development suite distribution:
OpenEnterpriseX [13150].
The Developer section describes what a user can expect with JavaTM 2
Platform, Standard Edition (J2SETM platform) 1.5 [13146].
The Retail section is included this week, and focuses on RFID market
readiness [13224] and new solutions [13145]. The Education section
looks at how the JavaSM Education and Learning Community is unifying
and strengthening standards [13168].
Each week, we determine which articles have been most frequently referenced by logged in subscribers to provide you with the most popular articles of the current and last volumes.
According to the Dow Jones Newswire, Sun Microsystems looks to the
growing mobile telecommunications market to supply an important portion
of the company's growth in China. Already the world's largest mobile
phone market with about 300 million subscribers, estimates call for an
additional 60 million new subscribers in the current year.
Sun is launching a new blogging site that allows company employees to
create a blog and discuss work-related topics that would have once been
off-limits. IDG News Service reports that the site blogs.sun.com is
being set up in an effort to improve corporate communication at the
grassroots level.
EnWin Utilities, a managed services company providing customer support
on behalf of EnWin Powerlines, Windsor Utilities Commission, MaXess
Network, and the City of Windsor, Ontario, has chosen Sun technology in
the deployment of its PeopleSoft CIS implementation.
Sun will soon establish a research center in Sydney, Australia, in its
effort to capture a bigger share of the worldwide market for RFID
technology. A major focus of the center will be overcoming the system integration problems that companies, wishing to set up large-scale RFID infrastructure, must address.
Sun and Lucent Technologies have released the Accelerate Enterprise
Solutions providing a comprehensive Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
package designed for medium to large corporations with over 1,000
employees and three or more locations. Sun's networking technology and Lucent's telephony expertise are combined to provide businesses with access to voice and data services from anywhere.
Sun accredited resellers in South Africa provide client support at a
local level that helps bring confidence and satisfaction to customers
with investment interests. Sun partners in South Africa find this
technique empowering in name, creditability and experience. This model
offers a one-stop shop for architectural design, supply, installation
and maintenance of Sun products.
Sun and 8D Technologies will be developing strategic target markets for
the 8D ECO Java technology-based wireless e-payment solution.
Markets such as M2M (machine-to-machine) applications involving
advanced wireless point of sale (POS) systems will be targeted. Sun's
worldwide network of clients and developers will be able to access 8D's
solutions through Sun's iForce Partner Program.
Sun's approach to IT infrastructure helps users reduce cost,
complexity, and disruption throughout the lifecycle of their business
solutions while it also protects critical IT investments better than
either IBM or HP.
The Web site of the National Hockey League (NHL) has a new look, due in
large part to an infusion of IT infrastructure elements from Sun
Microsystems. The NHL uses its heavily-visited site to extend key
functionality around waivers to the media, NHL staffers, team managers
and the NHL Players Association. In addition, the NHL now offers its
fans such additional services as wireless access, up-to-date scores and
league news.
Sun, Cray and IBM are pitting three distinct technologies against each
other in the competition for a petaflops supercomputer, one that will
perform quadrillions of floating point calculations per second. This
race began in 2002 with five contestants and now has three, whose
competing designs are intensifying in speed and piquing interest.
This article is a calendar of upcoming events, with links to the articles about them. Click on the article numbers in the calendar to get more details about the event and how to register.
This Sun Global Education and Research customer forum focuses on
high-end scientific and engineering computing issues and trends.
Besides the general program, this summer's consortium will be hosting a
day for special interest groups (SIGs) in Computational Biology and
Grid and Portal Computing.
Craig Conover, Sun staff engineer, Developer Tools, will moderate an
online chat on "Accelerating Productivity with the Sun Java Studio
Enterprise Web Application Framework" on June 24 at 10:00 a.m. PDT (1700 GMT).
As part of the NoFluffJustStuff series of symposiums, the Western
Canada Java Software Symposium promises no sales pitches or marketing
fluff, just pure and simple Java technology, including the latest
trends, innovations and best practices in Java software application
development.
OpenEnterpriseX is designed to be a free, open source Java
technology / Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE
platform) development suite distribution that is both comprehensive and
standards based. The solution is used to build enterprise applications,
and is based on open source Web servers, containers, frameworks,
utilities, database and IDE editor.
An open letter calling for quicker standards convergence and the
creation of a public Web Services Addressing specification recently
appeared on the open Web Services mailing list for the W3C. The W3C
Advisory Committee members involved with the sending of the letter
include: Arjuna, CycloneCommerce, Enigmatec, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Iona,
NEC, Nokia, Oracle, SeeBeyond and Sun.
System administrators and Java technology developers can learn how
to install, configure, and run the Tomcat server in this new book.
Authors Vivek Chopra, Amit Bakore, Jon Eaves, Ben Galbraith, Sing Li
and Chanoch Wiggers focus on solving real-world problems encountered in
all phases of server administration.
The NetBeans project has a related governance board which oversees
irresolvable disputes that occur between individuals. The board is made
up of three people who serve six month terms.
Calvin Austin highlights the new features of the Java 2 Platform,
Standard Edition (J2SE platform) 1.5 -- the "Tiger" -- which will
contain 15 component JSRs and nearly 100 updates developed through the
Java Community Process. Comprehensive information on the changes is
available in the release notes guide.
Sun has released new versions of two of its most popular solutions: the
Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP) 1.4 and the Sun
Java System Application Server 7, Enterprise Edition. It will be available later this month (June, 2004).
Ed Ort, Reggie Carey and Craig Conover's Tech Tips article on the Sun
Java Studio Enterprise, a developer solution for the Sun Java
Enterprise System, illustrates the ease of building a Web application
with the solution.
The Java Education and Learning Community (JELC) is a global
community of key educators, administrators and technologists sharing
best practices and strategies to create, manage and implement
next-generation education infrastructures. The central access point of
this new community is the Education and Learning Community portal on
Java.Net.
Deemed the largest StarOffice 7 software shipment in North America,
Sun and the province of Ontario have agreed to supply more than two
million Canadian students with access to Sun's desktop productivity
suite. StarOffice 7 has been delivered to 72 public and Catholic
schools boards in Ontario.
Researchers can now receive results 200 times faster than on a standard
PC with the new supercomputing facilities at the University of New
Brunswick Fredericton (UNBF). The $1.3 million computing system is
powered by Sun Canada and was unveiled in May at UNBF.
Sun is courting buyers in the market for open source products among the
new member states in the European Union. The company's recent deal with
the Hungarian Ministry of Education to distribute StarOffice
Productivity Suite to the nation's schools is a first effort in this
sector, according to Scarlet Pruitt, reporting for IDG News Service.
(See Article [13029])
DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework incorporated into
the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). This new tool
provides a powerful infrastructure to permit administrators, developers
and service personnel to concisely answer questions regarding an
operating system's and user programs' behavior. A pre-release version is available with the Sun Software Express for Solaris.
In Sun BluePrints Online Article "Global Grid Connectivity Using
Globus Toolkit With Solaris Operating System," authors Chong-Wee
Simon See and Gabriel Ghinita explain how to integrate grid computing
with Globus Toolkit software for a site using Sun N1 Grid Engine
software as a local resource manager.
Learn how to change the boot media rcS script to perform network
installations without a local boot server. Author John S. Howard
describes this procedure as well as how to create a bootable CD using
the customized startup script found on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) installation media in this Sun BluePrints article.
Sun offers a free download of the Sun Java System Application
Server Standard Edition 7 2004Q2, which updates Sun Java System
Application Server Standard Edition 7. The new version is Java 2
Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) compliant and comes with a
variety of new features.
Until recently, Java technology developers have had to create their
own help systems from scratch for each platform their applications were
designed to run on. Qusay H. Mahmoud shows how the JavaHelp System
can take the time, cost and effort out of this process with his
tutorial on how to use the solution.
According to Ambit-JOBNET Trend, Java programming language skills
are in demand with Java technology cited most often as a prerequisite
for job placement. Figures from the recruiter find the need for Java technology experts is at 8.5 percent of IT roles. IT trends suggest a move toward Swing, Servlets and
APIs.
Quadrasis Inc. is releasing support for two additional LDAPs for its EASI
Express Security Unifier product. This solution is designed to support
authentication and attribute access from Sun ONE Directory Server
(now the Sun Java Directory Server), Microsoft Active Directory and
OpenLDAP.
A new tool is available for the analysis of power in large SoC (System
on a Chip) designs. Sequence is releasing PowerTheater-nm, which is
aimed at helping designers to get an accurate estimation of power as
early in the design cycle as possible. The solution offers clock-gating
aware power analysis at the RTL level capable of predicting power
savings.
Get powerful enterprise and database administration features for all major relational databases with the latest version of Aqua Data Studio 3.7.
AquaFold, Inc.'s release was announced as the first and only tool to
provide a complete database administration and query tool for all
databases on all operating systems, including the Solaris Operating
System.
Both free and for-a-fee versions of the Opera 7.50 Web browser are
currently available. The new version features a reworked interface that
takes advantage of a single panel to offer browser access as well as
access to the integrated email client, RSS newsreader, IRC-compatible
chat client and contact database.
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