This week's news reports on the retirement of Sun VP for Channel
Partners Gary Grimes [13396], examines how SunSM Services is making a
difference in the company's profitability [13411], Sun's role in
powering the ultimate live operational Smart Home [13392] and an informative look at Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education [12899].
Promotions highlight the Developer section, which includes a free Sun
FireTM V20z server or Sun workstation [13369]. For mobile JavaTM
technology developers, the Java VerifiedTM Program has become the
standard promotion and distribution program [13391].
The Sun Java section covers an interactive JavaTM Live event
examining the Sun JavaTM Desktop System Release 2 [13343], a comparative
review of the Sun JavaTM System Application Server and Sun JavaTM
System Web Server [13403] and what to expect next in the Sun Java[TM}
Studio Creator, Enterprise JavaBeansTM and J2SETM 5 [13370].
Gaming enthusiasts may be interested in the Chris Melissinos interview
regarding the industry and JavaTM technology [13404], as well as a Sun
Online chat addressing Sun Game Server Technology [13425].
Descriptions of the latest publications can be found throughout this issue including "Java Cookbook, 2nd Edition" [13885], "Eclipse Cookbook" [13407] and "Programming Jakarta Struts, Second Edition" [13397].
Gary Grimes, VP of partner management and sales operations at Sun, will be leaving the post in December. He will be succeeded by Greg Stroud, currently VP for the strategic partner area, who will continue his responsibilities for global systems, uniting all of Sun's channel partners into a consolidated organization.
Majitek has called on its partner, Sun in Australia, to power
MajikHouse, a live operational example of the ultimate Smart Home
located in Melbourne. Majikhouse features over 2000 software and
hardware objects integrated into one single distributed system
environment using the power of Java and Jini technologies and
Maji, Majitek's new distributed systems framework.
Sun Services is leading the way in the recovery process that Sun is
undergoing as it seeks a return to profitability. The iForce channel
partners and an expansion into high-margin services are catching the eye of
new customers.
Supporting strategically selected academic institutions worldwide in
order to develop the automotive life cycle management (PLM) team of the
future is the mission of Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative
Engineering Education (PACE). PACE links corporations such as Sun,
General Motors, EDS and UGS PLM Solutions together to develop products.
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. The top articles for the three most recent issues were:
77.1: "Solaris OE Guide for New System Administrators"
76.5: Sun's Future Goals Regarding Tools, Microsoft and Research
DataDirect Connect, an advanced suite of Java Database Connectivity
(JDBC) API drivers -- the most widely deployed suite of third-party
JDBC drivers on the market -- will now enhance the functionality and
performance of the Sun Java Studio Creator and the Sun Java
System Application Server solutions from Sun.
In a move that extends its already long-standing relationship with Sun,
VERITAS Software Corporation announced that its VERITAS i3 application
performance management (APM) software now supports the Sun Java
Enterprise System.
Sun and StorageTek have signed an OEM partnership agreement under which Sun
will market and sell StorageTek's StreamLine SL8500 array under its own Sun
StorEdge brand, along with StorageTek's L-700e and L-180 tape libraries.
James Gosling has been described as starting one of the most powerful
of the industry's contrarian currents into motion with the creation of
the Java programming language. According to Gosling, his
inspiration for Java came by taking a step back, observing and
absorbing the changing context of computing during the mid-90s.
Australian school children, with the help of Sun technology, have access to a new multimedia style of learning environment called
Experimedia. Sun's advanced multimedia technology challenges the way
that these school children and other visitors access and interact with
the State Library of Victoria's collection.
Sun's Chief Gaming Officer Chris Melissinos recently discussed the role
of Java technology in game development with Janice J. Heiss. According
to Melissinos, the Game Technologies Group at Sun is attempting to
satisfy game developers by providing APIs that offer a high-performance
game experience.
Sun and Momentum Research Group want to know what you think about
today's IT technology, tomorrow's developments and how Sun can make a
difference for you and your business. Join the panel and you'll have an
opportunity to experience and evaluate new products and services prior
to release.
The Sun Java Desktop System Marketing Manager Gary Little and
Marketing Technical Specialist Geoff Baysinger recently discussed the
second release of this desktop solution during a moderated forum hosted
by Edward Ort. The Sun Developer Network has posted the transcripts of
this Java Live forum that originally took place June 15, 2004.
A technical article on the Sun Developers Web site compares the Sun
Java System Application Server (formerly known as Sun ONE
Application Server) to the Sun Java System Web Server (formerly
known as Sun ONE Web Server), weighing out the differences between
the two and recommending the one to choose in a variety of situations.
Quios will be licensing the Sun Java System Content Delivery Server
and the Sun Java Enterprise System to add mobile content delivery
to its suite of hosted services. Quios SMS and MMS delivery
infrastructure combined with these Sun technologies, will allow third
parties to offer their content without significant investment.
The Sun Java Studio Creator and Enterprise JavaBeans are slated
for enhancements that will be available to customers later this year.
According to Jeff Jackson, vice president of Java development tools at
Sun, improvements to these technologies will primarily concentrate on
better Web Services functionality.
This article is a calendar of upcoming events, with links to each specific event article. Click on the article numbers in the calendar to get more details about the event and how to register.
The National Internet Conference and Education (NiCE) will be held at
the Jakarta Hilton International Hotel on July 26-29. NiCE will be held
in conjunction with APNICs training in July in Jakarta.
The Mobility Conference and Exhibition 2004 is scheduled for August 2-4 in
Singapore. This three-day conference includes both a conference segment and an exhibition component. The conference track will include plenary tracks,
industrial workshop sessions and technical presentations.
On July 20, log on to the online chat covering Sun Game Server Technology, 11:00 A.M. PDT/6:00 P.M. GMT; also on July 20, Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.4, 11:00 A.M. PDT/6:00 P.M. GMT; and on July 29, Improving Web Services Performance through Fast Web Services, 10:00 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC.
Sun is offering developers two attractive packages: the Sun Java
Developer Workstation Enterprise Promotion and the Java Enterprise
Developer Promotion. These offers are exclusives from the Sun Developer
Network.
"Programming Jakarta Struts, Second Edition" by Chuck Cavaness fills
the gap in documentation available for the increasingly popular
platform. The book serves as a guide for developers wishing to use the
Struts Framework to its fullest potential, sparing them a lengthy
front-end presentation and ushering them instead on to coding the
business logic at the heart of their programs.
Steve Holzner has written "Eclipse Cookbook" to provide Java
technology developers with a new approach to development projects.
Rather than write plug-ins and extensions, readers will learn how to
use the power and convenience of Eclipse to solve their problems.
The Java Verified Program, developed by the Unified Testing
Initiative, is the de facto standard promotion and distribution program
for mobile Java technology developers and, according to Sun's Greg
Wolff, "...the single largest testing program in the world."
Mapping the human genetic blueprint is the next step genomic
researchers are facing now that the Human Genome Project completed its
task of generating massive amounts of volume data on the subject. Experts
are relying on BioJava, an open-source, scalable, network-aware
cross-platform to decipher a text of three billion characters.
Author Ian F. Darwin cuts to the chase in "Java Cookbook, Second
Edition," offering insider tips, tricks, information on the latest
third-party resources, helpful how-tos and dozens of new recipes on
Java technology without lengthy explanations. This book covers the
latest developments in Java technology including recipes for the newly
released JDK 1.5 beta version.
Wireless customers now rely on their mobile phones for the latest
financial, sports, traffic and travel news, along with photographic
capabilities, arcade gaming, online chatting, instant messaging and
email updates, plus personalized ringtones and graphics -- all
indicative of the power of Java technology.
Sun, in an effort to strengthen brand recognition for Java
technology, is launching a series of 13 half-hour TV shows in the
European market. The series will be called "Mobile Entertainment
World." Phone service sellers in that market may join Sun in
sponsorship of the series.
Sun Labs is collaborating with Zurich Information Security Center
(ZISC) to create a storage solution that not only is efficient, but is
also secure. Project Celeste aims to provide automatically managed
secure storage and is under development with both Sun Labs and ZISC
working together toward this goal.
Vic Winkler's paper on "Security Guidelines for Vetting and Fielding
Java Solutions" makes the obvious but nonetheless necessary point
that Java technology-based approaches to enterprise security are only as good as
the weakest link in the system. Such is the case with every security
system.
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is
recommending that users of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) consider
trying a different Web browser due to the multiple security breaches
that have occurred recently. Vulnerability Note VU#713878 states that
due to a significant number of IE's vulnerabilities, switching Web
browsers is a valid safety measure.
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