System News for Sun Users

"Privacy and Big Data"

2011-09-26T16:00:00+01:00

The new O'Reilly title Privacy and Big Data explores the raging privacy debate over the use of personal data, with one undeniable conclusion: once data have been collected, the subjects have absolutely no control over who uses it or how it is used. "Privacy and Big Data" introduces readers to the players in the personal data game, and explains the stark differences in how the U.S., Europe, and the rest of the world approach the privacy issue. The book discusses:

Collectors: social networking titans that collect, share, and sell user data
Users: marketing organizations, government agencies, and many others
Data markets: companies that aggregate and sell datasets to anyone
Regulators: governments with one policy for commercial data use, and another for providing security

"The days of Internet anonymity are over," says Mary Ludloff.

Awk One-Liners Explained

2011-08-18T16:00:00+01:00

Peteris Krumins announces his e-book "Awk One-Liners Explained" and provides a convincing example of the utility of Awk by contrasting the single line of code required to print a list of all the users on a system with the several lines required to write a similar program in C. The latter program also needs to be compiled, he notes. Awk, he asserts, deserves to be incorporated in the daily workflow of everyone.

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition

2011-06-03T16:00:00+01:00

"JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition" by David Flanagan is now available from O'Reilly, which describes the volume as " ... a programmer's guide and comprehensive reference to the core language and to the client-side JavaScript APIs defined by web browsers. The 6th edition covers HTML5 and ECMAScript 5, with new chapters on jQuery and server side JavaScript. It's recommended for experienced programmers who want to learn the programming language of the Web, and for current JavaScript programmers who want to master it."

"DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD" by Brendan Gregg and Jim Mauro

2011-05-09T16:00:00+01:00

Readers can find a 50-page excerpt (all of Chapter 9, Applications, from Brendan Gregg and Jim Mauro's book "DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD." Of that chapter the authors write, "With DTrace, applications can be studied like never before: following the flow of code from the application source, through libraries, through system calls, and through the kernel. This chapter completed the topics for application analysis; see other chapters in this book for related topics, including the analysis of programming languages, disk, file system, and network I/O."

Oracle Modernization Solutions: A Practical Guide to Planning and Implementing SOA Integration and Re-architecting to an Oracle Platform

2011-04-25T16:00:00+01:00

"Oracle Modernization Solutions: A Practical Guide to Planning and Implementing SOA Integration and Re-architecting to an Oracle Platform," authored by Tom Laszewski and Jason Williamson is now available from Packt Publishing on amazon.com. The cover notes explain that the book, described as unique in that it identifies a specific set of implementation tools and targets the Oracle Database and Fusion Middleware as the end architecture, shows readers how to modernize a legacy mainframe application using the modernization approaches of SOA Integration and Re-architecture. Readers are assumed to have some knowledge of mainframes, J2EE, SOA, and Oracle technologies, along with some background in programming and database design.

'Oracle Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials' from Prentice Hall

2011-04-21T16:00:00+01:00

"Oracle Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials" a title in the Oracle Solaris System Administration Series authored by Jeff Victor, Jeff Savit, Gary Combs, Simon Hayler, and Bob Netherton is available from Prentice Hall on amazon.com. The book is described as providing an accessible introduction to computer virtualization, specifically the system virtualization technologies that use the Oracle Solaris or OpenSolaris operating systems. It also covers many of the concepts, features, and methods shared by many implementations of system virtualization.

Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata Database Machine 11g R2

2011-03-17T16:00:00+01:00

"Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata and the Sun Oracle Database Machine," a new title from Oracle Press, is a book filled with best practices for deployments, hardware sizing, architecting the database machine environments for maximum availability, and backup and recovery. The book also covers the Oracle Database 11gR2 features used within these offerings, as well as migration options and paths for Oracle and non-Oracle databases to Oracle Exadata. In addition, this Oracle Press guide also discusses architecture, administration, maintenance, monitoring, and tuning of Oracle Exadata Storage Servers and the Sun Oracle Database Machine.

Packt Publishes 'Open AM'

2011-01-25T17:00:00+01:00

Indira Thangasamy, OpenSSO Quality engineering team manager, explains her new book, "Open AM" as " ... all you want to know about the OpenAM, the open source version of Sun's OpenSSO product, now backed by Forgerock.com," in a recent blog post. Oracle, she explains, continues to provide support for the OpenSSO 8.0 Enterprise deployments. Her book book is written and tested based on the OpenSSO Express build 9 source code branch, however, which is no longer accessible in its binary form, although Forgerock makes the equivalent build available to the external open source community based on the OpenSSO expressbuild. The blog post provides a link for a download of that code.

Oracle White Papers

2010-10-26T16:00:00+01:00

Recent papers covering running Oracle Database on Oracle Solaris and Oracle Hardware:

Deploying Oracle Database on the Oracle Solaris Platform - An Introduction
Deploying Oracle Database on x86 Systems with Oracle Solaris
Deploying Oracle Database on Oracle Sun SPARC Enterprise M-series Systems
Optimizing Single Instance Oracle Databases on Oracle's T-series Servers
Dynamic SGA Tuning of Oracle Database on Oracle Solaris with DISM
Oracle Database on Sun SPARC Enterprise T-series Systems
Migrating Oracle Database from Veritas Storage Foundation to Oracle Automatic Storage Management
Virtualization Options for Oracle Database Deployments on Sun SPARC Enterprise T-series Systems
Virtualization Options for Oracle Database Deployments on Sun SPARC Enterprise M-series System
Best practices for deploying Oracle RAC inside Oracle Solaris Containers
Highly Available and Scalable Oracle RAC Networking with Oracle Solaris 10 IPMP

For more white papers go to Oracle Technology Network.

Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns: A New Book

2010-10-25T16:00:00+01:00

Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns by Harish Gaur and Markus Zirn approaches the question of how one decides to use Oracle Fusion Middleware by presenting 10 patterns that can help solve business needs in three specific areas: process improvement, business visibility and collaboration and security. Each chapter introduces a new pattern, along with an architectural overview of a real-world customer solution developed with Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1

2010-10-18T16:00:00+01:00

Learn how to code, package, deploy, and test functional Enterprise JavaBeans with the latest edition of bestselling guide. Written by the developers of the JBoss EJB 3.1 implementation, this book brings you up to speed on each of the component types and container services in this technology, while the workbook in the second section provides several hands-on examples for putting the concepts into practice. Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 is the most complete reference you'll find on this specification.

"DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD"

2010-10-14T16:00:00+01:00

The forthcoming book "DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD," due in December 2010, covers using DTrace, and is complementary to the "DTrace Guide." Co-author Brendan Gregg (with Jim Mauro) says the book " ... should serve as a cookbook of DTrace scripts and one-liners for topics spanning the entire software stack. It also contains strategies and checklists for these topics, to help the reader develop scripts further."

"Oracle Solaris Cluster Essentials"

2010-10-07T16:00:00+01:00

"Oracle Solaris Cluster Essentials" combines a complete technology introduction and hands-on guide written for architects, administrators, and IT managers. This newest edition to the Oracle Solaris System Administration Series covers both Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.2 and Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition in detail, offering start-to-finish lifecycle guidance for planning, implementation, management, and troubleshooting.

Security and Cloud Computing

2010-09-16T16:00:00+01:00

A Gartner poll of IT managers revealed security and privacy are the top concerns when it comes to cloud computing. Some recent publications address these concerns by focusing on security and the cloud.

"GlassFish Security"

2010-08-31T16:00:00+01:00

Author Masoud Kalali sets out to teach users of the open source GlassFish application server how to secure Java EE artifacts (like Servlets and EJB methods), configure and use GlassFish JAAS modules, and establish environment and network security using this practical guide filled with examples.

"A Conceptual Guide To OpenOffice.Org 3" 2nd Edition

2010-08-26T16:00:00+01:00

"A Conceptual Guide To OpenOffice.org 3" provides an easy-to-read, thorough, self-paced guide to using the open source office productivity suite. New topics in this second edition include installation instructions for the OpenOffice.org native Mac OS X port, installation and use of OpenOffice.org extensions, an overview of the OpenDocument format and more.

"NetBeans Platform 6.9 Developer's Guide"

2010-08-18T16:00:00+01:00

The August 2010 release of the "NetBeans Platform 6.9 Developer's Guide" is a a hands-on guide leading readers through the development of a complete Swing application built on the platform. The 288-page book helps readers create robust Swing applications by providing in-depth coverage of all the features of the NetBeans Platform 6.9. The book follows through the creation of a complete sample application, chapter by chapter.

"Oracle JRockit: The Definitive Guide"

2010-07-13T16:00:00+01:00

Published in June 2010, "Oracle JRockit: The Definitive Guide" discusses Oracle's high-performance java virtual machine (JVM), JRocket. The authors discuss coding best practices and provide insights on techniques to analyze application behavior and gain performance.

Some topics from the book: learn about the JVM building blocks (code generator, garbage collection, threads, synchronization); enhance your understanding of the Java runtime; benchmark and measure performance; JRockit Mission Control; Command-line flags that control JRockit subsystems; Application profiling; memory leak detection; how JRockit Virtual Edition works

VirtualBox 3.1: Beginner's Guide

2010-07-07T16:00:00+01:00

The move from VMware to VirtualBox was an experiment for Alfonso V. Romero who decided to try the open source x86 virtualization product since VMware required so much power to get things done. This began his fascination with the former Innotek technology that moved to Sun and then Oracle following acquisitions. Romero's amazement with VirtualBox led him to finally write the informative and easy to follow beginner's guide on VirtualBox 3.1.

Solaris and OpenSolaris Book Recommendations

2010-06-29T16:00:00+01:00

Joerg Moellenkamp, who has authored and published a set of tutorials on the "Less Known Solaris Features", has offered a list of must-have book recommendations on the Oracle Solaris and OpenSolaris operating systems. He has categorized these references for beginner-, intermediate-, and advanced-level users.

Discounts on Technology Books for OTN Members

2010-06-23T16:00:00+01:00

Oracle Technology Network members receive discounts on select technology books from Apress, Pearson, CRC Press, and Packt Publishing. This membership perk is just one of a few new benefits OTN expects to pass along to members. Find out what books are being offered and their subsequent discounts.

"Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials"

2010-06-14T16:00:00+01:00

The "Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials" covers just that - the essential features of the Oracle Solaris 10 OS. Key topics include installing, booting, and shutting down a system; managing packages and patches (software updates); controlling system processes; managing disks and devices; managing users; configuring networks; and using printing services.

"Multicore Application Programming for Windows, Linux, and Solaris"

2010-05-31T16:00:00+01:00

Oracle Principle Software Engineer Darryl Gove is penning a new book entitled "Multicore Application Programming for Windows, Linux, and Solaris" that is set for release in the September/October timeframe. In a couple of blog entries, Gove introduces this upcoming publication and discusses what each chapter addresses.

"Oracle Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials"

2010-04-12T16:00:00+01:00

The forthcoming book "Oracle Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials" will go beyond hypervisors and present information on all forms of server virtualization that is provided by Solaris 10 as well as those that the OS can use, writes one of its authors Jeff Victor. Areas to be covered are expected to include Solaris Containers (also called Solaris Zones), VirtualBox, Oracle VM (x86 and SPARC; the latter of which was known as Logical Domains), and Dynamic Domains. Jeff Victor's blog entry provides a few more details, noting that the book is available for pre-order at Amazon.com.

Free Book on Hudson in the Works

2010-04-01T16:00:00+01:00

A new book on the open source continuous integration (CI) tool known as Hudson is currently in the works. Author John Ferguson Smart aims to teach readers how to build a powerful and robust CI infrastructure using Hudson. The book will be freely available online or in PDF form with chapters and code samples posted as they are completed. Currently, Smart has released his first chapter entitled "First Steps with Hudson."

"Solaris 10 ZFS Essentials"

2010-03-17T16:00:00+01:00

As the title reads, this book is an essentials guide to Solaris 10 ZFS. Numbering only 144 pages, the slim paperback is designed to show its readers how to deploy and manage ZFS file systems. It is particularly useful for those users who are new to Solaris or are using ZFS for the first time. It is easy to get ZFS up and running on a home system or business IT infrastructure by following the simple instructions in this book.

"SOA with Java" - Rough Cut Available

2010-01-18T17:00:00+01:00

The book "SOA with Java" is a comprehensive tutorial that explains and demonstrates how to build and implement service-oriented solutions by combining established SOA principles, patterns, and practices with modern Java services technology. An entire chapter is devoted to OpenESB, a Java based open source enterprise service bus that can be used as a platform for both Enterprise Application Integration and SOA.

"Solaris 10 Security Essentials"

2009-12-29T17:00:00+01:00

"Solaris 10 Security Essentials" describes the various security technologies contained in the Solaris and OpenSolaris operating systems. The book describes how to make installations secure and how to configure the OS to the particular needs of your environment. The authors present the material in a straightforward way that makes it accessible to system administrators at all levels.

Free Ebook: HPC for Dummies

2009-11-02T17:00:00+01:00

High performance computing (HPC) is playing a central role in data centers all over the world, enabling organizations to develop new products, streamline processes, cut costs, and gain a competitive advantage. Get the facts about what exactly HPC is and how it can benefit IT environments in the free eBook, "High Performance Computing For Dummies, Sun and AMD Special Edition" by Douglas Eadline.

"Oracle SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach"

2009-09-28T16:00:00+01:00

"Oracle SQL Recipes" by Darl Kuhn, Grant Allen, and Bob Bryla offers its readers tested and working examples of SQL that have been used to solve common problems faced by developers and database administrators on a daily basis. The book covers a vast variety of SQL solutions; covering topics such as common query patterns, XML, large objects, tuning, and troubleshooting.