In News this week, the Sun StorEdgeTM 6920 System has set a new midrange performance record [13595]. Jonathan Schwartz is weighing in on how a demo of the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS) on IBM's power architecture could be available soon [13600].
In Features, JavaTM technology guru James Gosling discusses how the ownership of file formats could be preserved with a new specification [13599]. Sun finds success at the 2004 Olympic Games with the golden performance of the Athens International Airport [13602].
In Developer, "Scratch" offers an inexpensive open source solution that allows users to capture signatures with JavaTM 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2METM) and a Palm device [13576]. And, an article from Sun looks at developing Web applications with JavaServerTM Faces [13554].
The Sun StorEdge 6920 system earned first place in midrange performance and price-performance in benchmark results conducted by vendor-independent Storage Performance Council (SPC). This customer-ready storage subsystem, in conjunction with a Sun Fire 6800 server, delivered 48,646.62 SPC-1 IOPS performance and an SPC-1 price-performance result of US$10.73.
Porting the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) onto IBM's Power architecture may soon be a reality if Sun has it's way. According to Sun's President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz, the company plans on releasing a demo version of "Solaris-on-Power" in the near future.
A joint submission from Sun, BEA Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and SAP AG to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is set to further advance Web Services technology. WS-Addressing is the latest version of a key Web Services specification that will enable the creation of reliable and interoperable Web Services applications.
Posting a 20 percent growth in revenue for fiscal year 2004, Sun Philippines, Inc. (SunPhil) is aiming for a 20 to 30 percent growth for fiscal year 2005, according to SunPhil's President and Managing Director Cynthia R. Mamon, who spoke to Edu H. Lopez with the Manila Bulletin Online.
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:
78.3: Sun's AMD Opteron-based Systems Proving Unbeatable
78.2: Project Janus: Run Linux Applications Unchanged on Solaris Operating System
78.1: Sun Fire V40z and V20z Server Architecture - a Technical White Paper
Sun's UK Managing Director Leslie Stretch attributes the company's focus on software and the public sector for its first reported growth in sales within the past three years. In an interview with Computing's Bryan Glick, Stretch discusses the company's recent revenues, strategies and the new UK management team.
In an article at internetnews.com, author Michael Singer discusses the recent words of Sun's CTO of the Developer Project Group at Sun, James Gosling. The Java programming language master indicated that it is time for a specification that allows the ownership of file formats to remain intact, despite other types of modification.
To get a better idea of how Sun's Project Looking Glass will kick off the next generation of desktop computing, Sean Bacher of Computerworld spoke to Craig Nicholas, a technical support engineer at Sun. Nicholas explained how Project Looking Glass was developing and explained that a developer's version will be available soon.
Sun technology has taken center stage in Athens with its recent project at the Athens International Airport (AIA) involving the deployment of an advanced internal communications portal that supplies more than 1000 airline and airport employees with single sign-on access to vital operational information.
The technical article "Scratch" by Scott Davis is designed to describe the open source solution that enables a user to capture signatures on a cheap, touchscreen-enabled Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) device. Scratch has only a bare minimum of requirements: CLDC 1.0 and MIDP 1.0.
A recent article from Sun describes how to develop Web applications with JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology. Prior to JSF technology, developers would often have to rely on the construction of HTML user interface components with servlets or JavaServer Pages (JSP). The rich user interfaces now available offer better functionality and usability.
Several new Java technology chats are available for download at the Java developer Web site. The most recent covers the J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.2, which is currently available as a Beta release. The toolkit adds support for the Mobile 3D Graphics API.
Authors Shing Wai Chan and Marina Sum have written an article that outlines the history and benefits of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) Query Language (QL) along with the concepts of finders and selectors. The document also cites key syntaxes supported by Sun Java System Application Server 8, and offers illustrations of them through examples.
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