The newly released NetBeans IDE 6.0.1 is available for download from the NetBeans Beta Update Center. Read the Change List for more details.

C|NET offers its list of Top 5 Downloads of 2007 and names Sun's open-source, free office suite Open Office as number 1.

Sign up for the hands-on course Developing Mobile Phone Applications With Java ME Technology on using CLDC, MIDP, and Java ME. The Sun Certified Mobile Application Developer (SCMAD) exam is for developers who create mobile applications using Java ME technologies for smart devices.

Check out details of Hasik and Gallegos Rios's JavaOne Conference lab, LAB-6400 "Create Your Own Mobile Game." Bring your own laptop.

Sang Shin and Jim Weaver deliver a course on "Developing Secure, Interactive Applications Hosted on a Variety of Clients Using JavaFX technology", May 5, 9 am to 12:30 pm,. Dwight Wilson offers one on "Using Java Card technology for Applications that Run on Smart Cards and Other Devices", 1:30 to 5:30 pm. Both on Monday, May 5, at the Intercontinental Hotel, San Francisco.

Join Sun software lead user experience designer Jeff Hoffman at his JavaOne session, Designing GUIs 101 (4968), so you can sling the slang around user-centered design with authority.

At the General Session on May 6, 3:20 p.m., Sun Microsystems VP Jeet Kaul of the Client Software Group describes the evolution of the Java platform targeting mobile, interactive video entertainment, and embedded devices.

Here are the May 6 technical sessions relating to JavaFX technology (check the online Content Catalog).

This update introduces new Java Plug-In, Java Kernel, Java Deployment Toolkit, new Java system properties, Java Quick Starter, hardware acceleration support, and Nimbus to provide an optimized consumer-end user experience.

With this example program, learn how to use eight user interface (UI) components in JavaFX Script technology. (Part 2 of a series)

Hinkmond Wong previews one of the demos for the 2008 JavaOne Conference: in his blog, he shows JavaFX Script Player running on a Java ME stack, on a Pantech Duo C810 cell phone

About 7 minutes into this week's SDNTV feature, Geek Gadget Guru Greg Posten unleashes Roboquad, Wowwee's interactive pet-like robot. First, Sun Chief OS Strategist Ian Murdock talks about OpenSolaris.

In this series of blogs, Sun's Mike Heinrichs tells you how to use the JavaFX Script programming language. This latest blog describes bound functions.

This new release features a significantly enhanced execution environment, a new virtual machine, and new network-oriented features.

At the last JavaPolis, JavaFX Script expert Jim Weaver gave an hourlong introduction to JavaFX Script presentation, which is now available online.

Start planning your time, with over 300 technical, collaborative, and hands-on sessions covering platforms, technologies, and applications. For an extensive list of content categories, session titles, and speaker details, search the JavaOne Content Catalog.

Sun engineer Arun Gupta updates this JavaFX Script client-server communication article with functionality from newer versions of GlassFish and NetBeans.

The distribution bundle includes several demos rewritten in compiled JavaFX Script and that run using Java WebStart. Draft javadoc-like documentation of the JavaFX UI Runtime API is available, as is javadoc for the javafxc Compiler API.

Almost $3 million in cash and data licenses is up for grabs at this year's NAVTEQ Global LBS Challege-APAC. If you have an idea for an LBS application that works with mobile or wireless devices using dynamic positioning technology and NAVTEQ maps, or have an existing non-commercial LBS application, register before the extended March 7 deadline. You will have until March 28, 2008 to submit your application.

In this Deep Dive Session, JXTA project architect Mohamed Abdelaziz discusses JXTA, a network protocol for peer-to-peer communication, and demonstrates how JXTA for MIDP 2.0 allows handheld devices to participate as first class devices in a JXTA network. Download JXTA for Java ME

Mobile & Embedded evangelist Terrence Barr reports from the Sun Tech Days in Frankfurt, Germany, and Roger Brinkley talks about his time at FOSS/IN in Bangalore, India.

Sun Microsystems' Joshua Marinacci has a new JavaFX Script series that uses "doodles" (code snippet samples) to explain JavaFX code. Here's part 2, on creating a tabbed rectangle.

In this series, developer James Weaver lets us in on his learn-as-you-go process of creating a Tetris-like game in compiled JavaFX Script. If you need the OpenJFX compiler, Weaver shows you how to get it in an earlier blog.

Some 200 Java developers and Sun employees attended the first Mobile & Embedded Developers Days, while a live video stream with IRC chat allowed worldwide participation.

Here's a listing of the latest JSR releases and activity, including the JSR 271 MIDP 3.0 public review draft availability, the JSR 280 XML API, JSR 279 Service Connection API, and JSR 300 DRM API.

Learn to use JavaFX Script technology to create a compiled JavaFX program that contains user interface components and 2D graphics. JavaFX Script expert Jim Weaver shows you how in part one of this new series.

IBM developerWorks offers a guide to JavaFX Script essentials in this article, working with the JavaFX Script Plugin for the Eclipse SDK.

Check out the various JavaFX Script demos that demonstrate Scene Graph concepts and functionality. You may be inspired to contribute one of your own.

This technical article offers Java ME developers suggestions on how to add support for source-code management and application deployment.

Learn to use JavaFX Script technology to create a compiled JavaFX program that contains user interface components and 2D graphics.

Be eligible to win one of the Sun SPOT kits to be given away at the community social event at the Java Mobile & Embedded Developers Days conference on January 23-24 in Santa Clara, California,if you register by Friday, January 18.

Test your MSA knowledge by taking this quiz, put together by SDN staff writer Richard Marejka.

Robert Eckstein discusses Sun Microsystems' new JavaFX platform, including his three favorite features of the new JavaFX Script language.

In his blog on JavaFX Script, James Weaver discusses some uses of Romain Guy's InfiniteProgressPanel widget, in the JavaFX Script UI library. Weaver promises demos of more UI widgets in future posts.

In this interview with Redmond Developer News, Gosling answers wide ranging questions around JavaFX, which he describes as "a really strong, coordinated set of client-side technologies."

January 23-24, Santa Clara, Calif., kicks off with a keynote from James Gosling followed by some 22 intermediate to advanced technical presentation, 13 lightning talks, 4 poster sessions for 9 poster presentations. There is a community social event the first night.

Chris Oliver explains JavaFX Script animation frameworks using a video poker game example. Animations for the deal and for the draw show your bet, cards, and scores.

Always wanted SuDoKu at your fingertips, on your cell phone? The M-Kanji-SuDoKu game can run on mobile devices that support Java ME CLDC 1.0 and MIDP 1.0.

Joshua Marinacci presents a demo that uses JavaFX Script to create Santa's Naughty-Nice pie chart, as well as a snow simulator. Have fun!

The Scene Graph project provides "scene graph" functionality at the Java level, as well as providing one of the important runtime elements that the JavaFX Script language depends upon from the underlying platform.

Join Dana Nourie December 18th, Tues 9 AM PST and 7 PM PST, in Second Life at the Sun Microsystems Developer Playground to discover how easy it is to learn the Java platform through web programming. Watch a demo and have your questions answered.

The milestone 3 release of JavaFX Script plugin for the NetBeans IDE 6.0 FCS is available for download . It includes new features in the source editor: code folding, code completion, and support of syntax highlighting preference setting via the Options window.

This tutorial shows you how to create the start-up code needed to make MIDP 2.0 games for Java-enabled mobile phones. It requires the NetBeans Mobility Pack for CLDC.

James Gosling, father of the Java language, will present a keynote at JavaPolis on the state of the Java universe. Other Sun talks will cover how Sun is working to continually improve the Java ME platform to meet the latest developments in the mobile ecosystem and driving convergence across the device landscape with the emerging JavaFX family of products.

Join Dana Nourie December 18th, Tues 9 AM PST and 7 PM PST, in Second Life at the Sun Microsystems Developer Playground to discover how easy it is to create web pages and apps in Java. Learn about NetBeans, JSPs, beans, database binding, the cool JMaki widgets and gadgets and gizmos. Watch a demo and get your questions answered.

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jMaki is a lightweight framework that makes it easy to build Ajax-based web applications. Learn more in this Deep Dive with jMaki Project lead, Greg Murray.

Learn techniques in developing, testing, optimizing, and deploying mobile content based on Java technology to wireless handsets, PDAs, telematics, TV, set-top boxes, or smart cards. December 3, 2007, Frankfurt, Germany.

In his latest video blog, Robert Eckstein discusses some highlights of Sun's new JavaFX platform.

A Beijing-based research analyst predicts "an additional 20 million mobile handsets flooding the Chinese market next year." Carla King covers this and Jim Hughes' keynote speech at the Beijing Sun Tech Days event.

jMaki introduced an additional set of widgets and sample applications for doing pie charts, line charts, area charts and bar charts. These widgets can be easily installed in the NetBeans IDE as an add-on component library. jMaki Charting widget library and Java and PHP samples can be downloaded from jMaki Charting dowload page. The details to participate as a user or contributor are available on the Community Page.

James Gosling, father of the Java programming language, blogs about the convergence of Java technologies. Lively comments ensue.

Strobl discusses the new designers (mobile and game), JRuby and JavaScript support, and profiling support in NetBeans.

Hinkmond Wong points to a Java ME application (using the MIDP GUI) from traffic.com and Skyward Mobile that lets you check real-time traffic situations on your phone.

Learn how to set up a logging handler and configure the server.

This article shows you two ways to create applications that are extensible, allowing you to add functionality and enhancements to an application without making changes to its original code base.

In a Tech Days keynote, Bray advises developers to continue to use Java but also consider the time-to-market advantages of some Web 2.0 solutions.

In 1997, SDN managing editor Carla King took her Mac to northern China on a Chinese motorcycle, sending dispatches to an adventure travel website. She's back in China for a new adventure: Sun Tech Days, Oct. 23-24, Shanghai, and Nov. 1-3, Beijing.

Extending Java ME to the physical world, Sentilla enables Java software developers to interact with the world using low power microcontrollers, sensors, actuators, and wireless mesh networking.

Visit the Sun Microsystems booth at the Montavista Vision 2007 Conference, October 9-10, in Santa Clara, CA . Sun is showcasing the many Java technologies empowering mobile and embedded devices.

Read Danny Coward's blog on the early access version of an major update to the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on Windows platforms, specifically focusing on features of the JRE needed by consumer content.

Ars Technica notes a recent technical brief that predicts that US households in 2012 will consume nearly 2 hours of video-on-demand viewing daily. VOD will add up to one-third (38%) of all TV-watching, up from 8.5% in 2007.

The Mobile & Embedded Community announces a call for papers, deadline October 31, 2007, for the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days conference, January 22-24, 2008, Santa Clara.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., is announcing two new Java SE security response features, each designed to strengthen the Java platform's position as one of the most widely used, secure software platforms available.

Sun's New2Java editor, Dana Nourie reviews the session Ajax Frameworks and Toolkits, and Building Rich Web Applications using jMaki and Phobos.

This conference is sold out. But you can get on a list for the 2008 conference.

This article highlights some techniques for restricting access to Ajax-based services. It then focuses on using URL-based API keys, which gives you fine-grained protection and allows you to track, meter, and restrict usage of a service.

Learn how to avoid memory-retention problems when working with third-party classes that use finalizers.

Sun is a gold sponsor at AJAXWorld 2007. Bob Brewin is a keynote speaker, plus hear Greg Murray, Nandini Ramani, Roberto Chinnici, and Jean-Francois Arcand, and Francois Orsini.

The new community-generated JavaFX API Reference is now available for JavaFX classes. It lists brief descriptions of the classes and contains links to additional information.

Programmers use procedural code to define the user interface (UI) in the Java language but in JavaFX Script, you can use declarative statements to define the UI. John O'Conner ports an existing application to illustrate the differences.

Here's a sampling of recent Sun blogs that provide JavaFX demos:
Radhika Gehant implements a Celsius Converter app.
Praveen Mohan offers several demos, including this rudimentary screensaver.
David Grieve, on a slightly twisted note, connects the emerging art of parkour with JavaFX Mobile.

This tutorial shows you how to use JavaFX Script in conjunction with NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 to access a web service using JAX-WS 2.1.

This blog entry shows how jMaki widgets can be embedded in a PHP page and deployed on GlassFish.

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Java.sun.com writer Ed Ort interviews Arun Gupta, Sun Technology Evangelist for Web Services and Next Gen Web Apps (a.k.a., Web 2.0), about Project Tango and how it enables web service interoperability between Java and .NET environments.

This first in a series follows staff writer John O'Conner as he gets started with JavaFX Script. He goes through the steps, so you don't have to -- from downloading the latest JDK to accessing the plugins for the NetBeans or Eclipse IDEs.

This first in a series follows staff writer John O'Conner as he gets started with JavaFX Script. He goes through the steps, so you don't have to -- from downloading the latest JDK to accessing the plugins for the NetBeans or Eclipse IDEs.

Learn how to use RMI to effortlessly demonstrate and test client-server functionality with JavaFX Script technology.

This article draws on your knowledge of JavaFX Script, invoking the Java platform's Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI) libraries to allow a JavaFX graphical user interface (GUI) to communicate remotely. Learn how to use RMI to effortlessly demonstrate and test client-server functionality with JavaFX Script.

Learn how a client-side mashup works, and explore some of the considerations related to this mashup approach.

While Ajax and the associated frameworks that allow rich internet applications to be created are growing in stature and power, consider interoperability as a major factor in deciding how to build your applications.

Mashing up the Maps screencast_web5_creating_mashups_with This screencast shows how jMaki allow to embed and interact with map widgets in your application.

Learn how to develop a JRuby application using the NetBeans IDE and deploy it on GlassFish.

The July 2007 JavaFX update release includes the announcement of the JavaFX Compiler Incubator project, the Casual demo (IM client in JavaFX Script), and SVG to JavaFX Translator. Significant updates to the JavaFX plugin in NetBeans are also included.

JavaFX Script is a highly productive scripting language that enables content developers to create rich media and content for deployment on Java environments. This article, aimed at traditional Java developers, is a brief but thorough introduction to Sun's exciting new technology.

JavaFX Mobile Product Line Manager Jacob Lehrbaum joins Hal Stern, VP of Global Systems Engineering, on this podcast to discuss JavaFX technology strategy for advanced converging mobile devices and what's available for developers today.

This mashup pulls RSS feed from a blog entry and display it in two different widgets, without any extra effort. The NetBeans IDE is used for tooling and the jMaki-enabled web application is deployed on GlassFish.

Learn how to use the Portal Server and to how to apply Ajax to portlets in Sang Shin's online Ajax Code Camp.

Learn how the Solaris DTrace tool can help trace Ajax applications, starting from the JavaScript code executed in a browser environment, to the Java back-end on the server side, and beyond.

Find out how jMaki plug-in can be installed in Eclipse 3.3 (codename Europa) and how easy it is to build jMaki-enabled web applications.

Learn to use the Swing Application Framework to manage life-cycle events, UI component event handling, threading, localizable resources, and simple persistence in your Java technology applications.

This introductory article shows you how to set up JRuby on the Java platform and explains the basics of using JRuby scripts with Java applications and the NetBeans IDE.

This screencast shows how a jMaki-wrapped Yahoo DataTable widget can be used to pull data from MySQL database using ActiveRecord in a Rails application.

Greg Murray gets you up and running with Google Gears, integrating it with other jMaki components as an extension.

Listen to this interview with Chet Haase, covering various topics in the Desktop Java space from the Consumer JRE to media support to applets to JavaFX Script, and his upcoming book.

The following topics are covered in this issue: New XPerts Session: Fibre Channel Connectivity, Configuration, and Tuning for the Solaris OS, Using Service Management Facility (SMF) in the Solaris 10 OS: A Quick Example, The "Sun AMPlify Your Web Tier" Challenge, New Articles on Storage Administration Hub, How to Use Sun Connection and Baselines to Patch the Solaris OS, Installation Documentation for the Solaris 10 11/06 Release, A Route to Standardized Operating Environments, and Short Message Service (SMS) Support in Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3

Learn how the Java Persistence API allows you to use POJOs in desktop applications.

The Cometd framework and its Bayeux protocol is now supported starting with Grizzly 1.0.11 and GlassFish 9.1 b35. Jean-Francois Arcand's blogs about the gCometd implementation, how to enable it and describes a DOJO cometd enabled example.

The Consumer JRE release will address several serious issues in deploying and running Java applications. Even better, you don't have to wait for the next major release of the JDK to get these features.

JavaServer Faces provides a component-model architecture through which you can build an Ajax application by drag-and-dropping Ajax-enabled JavaServer Faces components in an IDE such as Sun Java Studio Creator.

Learn about using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to plan your applications and understand others' applications.

Read Ed Ort's review of the irreverent Java Rock Stars, Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, co-founders of the Ajax community site Ajaxian.com. Wildly popular speakers on the techie conference circuit, Galbraith and Almaer demonstrated Ajax techniques and highlighted some of the lessons learned from the first highly successful "Ajax innovators" and examined what's new and cool in the Ajax arena.

GWT is definitely an interesting technology to explore for building Ajax applications especially for those who want to leverage their Java knowledge. The current version of NetBeans GWT plug-in does not support "creating a WAR" feature yet. That will be provided in the next version.

Use dynamic faces Ajax zones to easily enable plain old JSF components to send Ajax requests, dynamically update other components with the Ajax response, and use an Ajax Transaction to continually poll the server. By the end of the exercise, you have created a simple chat room!

From Ajax to Comet to Spring to Phobos, download the JavaOne Hands-On Labs and experience Web 2.0 web applications for yourself.

Register today for the JavaOne conference and save $100! The program is new and expanded. Learn More.

Join us at CommunityOne, a free and open environment of participation, contribution, and innovation. In this one-day technical conference, you can explore groundbreaking open-source and community-based environments, technologies and platforms. Choose from sessions at NetBeans Day or Start-up Camp and in tracks on Web 2.0, the OpenSolaris operating system, OpenJDK / Mobile and Embedded, the RedMonk community, and the GlassFish project. Registration is free, but space is limited.

Blog about GlassFish for a chance to win a 52-inch LCD HD TV. Contest runs May 1-June 15, 2007.

Blog about GlassFish for a chance to win a 52-inch LCD HD TV. Contest runs May 1-June 15, 2007.

This series examines some of the most common approaches, or styles, for doing mashups. Part 1 focuses on server-side mashups and discusses the major design considerations related to this mashup style.

This article describes how Sun Java System Portal Server makes effective use of Web 2.0 features and concepts to help your users be more collaborative and productive.

Software engineer Felipe Ortiz has been working with Java SE 6 for some time now, and he blogs on his view of its top features and biggest disappointments.

The following topics are covered in this issue: ZFS Overview and Guide, Using Solaris JumpStart With the Solaris 10 OS for x86/x64 Platforms, Multilevel Security Policies of the Solaris Trusted Extensions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems, Setting Up a Demo Based on the Sun Virtual Desktop Access Kit for VMware, Deploying JBoss Application Server on Sun Fire T2000 Servers, Patching an x86 Miniroot Image for the Solaris OS, Stop GAIM From Dumping Core When Chatting on MSN, and Assigning a New Device to an Existing Driver in the Solaris OS.

From building a web application that uses Google Maps to putting Dilbert on your mobile phone, you'll find a NetBeans sample application you just have to download.

Prototype is a popular JavaScript library. In fact, several other JavaScript libraries use Prototype underneath. In this session, you are going to learn various utility functions.

Download this new stable release of jMaki today

Don't miss these great Sun speakers at the Web 2.0 Expo: Dr. Jim Baty talks on Architecture for Humanity. Dan Roberts and Sanjay Sharma tell you how to Jumpstart Your Startup. Roberto Chinnici tells you why Scripting and the Java Platform is a Marriage Made in Heaven.

Don't miss these great Sun speakers at the Web 2.0 Expo: Dr. Jim Baty talks on Architecture for Humanity. Dan Roberts and Sanjay Sharma tell you how to Jumpstart Your Startup. Roberto Chinnici tells you why Scripting and the Java Platform is a Marriage Made in Heaven.

Ben Galbraith says that jMaki in the Sun Web Developer Pack "offers a compelling model for creating richcomponent-oriented Ajax interfaces in Java."

This java.net group is creating NetBeans sample code for existing Ajax-related books so that it's easier for developers to build and run the application described in the books.

Learn how to use Dynamic Faces, included in the new Sun Web Developer Pack, to add first-class Ajax support to your JavaServer Faces technology-based application.

The following topics are covered in this issue: New XPert Session: Configuring Java Applications to Use Solaris Security, Reminder -- Changes to Patch Policy for the Solaris 8 and 9 OS, Multilevel Security Policies of the Solaris Trusted Extensions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems, New Hubs for Admins of Sun Java Enterprise System Release 5 and Application Platform Suite, The Storage Administration Site, Using Configuration Management to Reduce Risk, and Configuring and Tuning the Solstice CMIP Stack and Enterprise Manager's CMIP MPA for Best Performance

The Sun Developer Network (SDN) won the 2007 Jolt award for best website/developer network. Jolt calls SDN the #1 "indispensable site for developers." Read about the 17th Annual Jolt Awards.

Work with the Java Pet Store 2.0 demo and the Java EE 5 platform to develop an Ajax-enabled Web 2.0 application that is user-driven, user-organized, and user-policed.

Simplify development of your Web 2.0 applications with this all-in-one download.

Craig McClanahan, creator of the Struts and Shale web application frameworks, will give a session on Encapsulating Ajax Functionality in JavaServer Faces Components at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East. Greg Murray, creator and principal architect of Project jMaki, will give a session on Enterprise Ajax Using Java.

The following topics are covered in this issue: BigAdmin Resources for Changes in Daylight Saving Time, Want Better Tools to Manage IP Storage Networks, English Version of "Solaris Internals, 2nd Edition" Now Available in China, Sun Cool Tools for CoolThreads Servers Optimize Web-Tier Environments, and Changes in Solaris Subscriptions (Formerly Known as Solaris Service Plans)

Your source for leading-edge technologies, proven standards-based software, and comprehensive service, support, and training offerings to help build out your Web 2.0 solutions.

Read part 1 and part 2 in a blog series that discusses how to develop and deploy JSR 168 portlets for the Sun Java Enterprise System portal.

Read part 1 and part 2 in a blog series that discusses how to develop and deploy JSR 168 portlets for the Sun Java Enterprise System portal.

Meet the founder of EchoSign, a startup that plugs the analog hole in digital signature management. Check it out on SDN Channel.

Find out how to use the basic features of Dynamic Faces to add Ajax capabilities to JavaServer Faces components.

jMaki Charting is a BSD based open source project focusing on providing jMaki enabled widgets for charting.

The following topics are covered in this issue: Changes to Patch Policy for the Solaris 8 and 9 OS, Solaris Ready Applications and Solutions, Configuring Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3 and Solaris Cryptographic Framework on Systems With UltraSPARC T1 Processors, Secure Systems vs. Systemic Security, Taming Your Terabytes, Parts 1 and 2, How to Create Patch Sets for Manual Installation, and New BigAdmin Hub for Commercial Software Developers

Learn the basics of jMaki in this tech tip.

Here's everything you need to know to put Ajax in your web pages using Ajax components, widgets, JavaScript technology, and other techniques.

Building on Dave Johnson's Roller/JSON post, Alexis wrote a simple application consuming Roller-generated data using the jMaki framework and NetBeans 5.5. jMaki, as any framework in the Ajax space, consumes JSON data and provides a wrapper technology around existing Ajax components.

Countless themes and memes will be front and center at AjaxWorld 2007 East in NYC. 100+ sessions cover every aspect of Ajax-enabled applications and those creating and deploying them.

A 15-minute video series of interviews with experts from Sun and elsewhere to explore how Ajax and Java technology converge to simplify the creation of auto-complete, form validation, data refresh, and other dynamic Web application functions.

Learn how to get the data from a bean using an EL expression, as you can with most other JSP tags.

Learn about Sun's StartUp Camp and our exclusive new startup offerings to help you think big and spend less. Hear first-hand from the winners of the "speed geeking" contest on what it takes to get started. Learn about the Startup Essentials Program and more, on the SDN Channel.

In this blog entry, Carla Mott uses the NetBeans plugin to build a web app that uses the standard layout template, the Dojo fisheye widget for navigation, the Yahoo Geocoder and Google map widgets.

Enjoy Greg Murray's Javapolis presentation on jMaki with basic examples, history, mindset and motivation.\

The NetBeans Visual Web Pack (derived from the award-winning Sun Java Studio Creator software) lets you rapidly and visually build standards-based web applications using JavaServer Faces and Ajax components.

The NetBeans Visual Web Pack (derived from the award-winning Sun Java Studio Creator software) lets you rapidly and visually build standards-based web applications using JavaServer Faces and Ajax components.

Ed Ort blogs from the Web Builder 2.0 Conference: Ajax is a design pattern more than a set of technologies, and other technologies will likely supplant it.

Ed Ort's report from Caesar's Palace gives you a glimpse into the new world of Ajax and Web 2.0.

What's the best way to introduce Ajax into your legacy application? This article series guides you through Ajax implementations, starting with writing the necessary code by hand, then using an open-source toolkit, and finally implementing JavaServer Faces components.

The following topics are covered in this issue: Sys Admins: Take a Survey, and Get a Cool T-Shirt!, New Information Hubs on BigAdmin, New Device Detection Tool for the Solaris OS, What Time Is It? Are You Sure?, SAMP (Solaris, Apache 2, MySQL 5, and PHP 5) Setup for Solaris 10 OS and Solaris Express, Deploying IBM DB2 UDB V8.2.x in Containers in the Solaris 10 OS, The Sun Java System Message Queue Notification Plug-in: An Overview, and Preventing Denial of Service Attacks in Sun Java System Messaging Server

Learn how javaScript coupled with emerging Java technologies can improve your productivity by easily producing the next generation of rich, innovative web solutions.

Check out the new Mobility Pack, Profiler Pack, Enterprise Pack, C/C++ Pack (Beta 3), and a technology preview of the Visual Web Pack. NetBeans 5.5 supports the Java EE 5.0 platform, including the Java Persistence, EJB 3 and JAX-WS 2.0 specifications.

Sean Brydon reminds us of this still very relevant JavaOne talk on how to build a web application on the Java EE 5 platform. Discussed are the design choices and decisions made for the new Java Pet Store 2.0.

Sean Brydon reminds us of this still very relevant JavaOne talk on how to build a web application on the Java EE 5 platform. Discussed are the design choices and decisions made for the new Java Pet Store 2.0.

This conference features over fifty technically focused sessions across three full days spanning four parallel tracks with over twenty five speakers.

The following topics are covered in this issue: New BigAdmin XPert Session on ZFS, Second Installment of Our Series on ZFS, New Security Certification, Deploying Wikis to Sun Java System Web Server 7.0, Part 1: JSPWiki, Tuning Tool for CoolThreads Technology (CoolTuner), Configuring Solaris Cryptographic Framework and Sun Java System Web Server 7 on Systems With UltraSPARC T1 Processors, and Setting Up F5 Networks' BIG-IP System With Sun Java System Application Server

Read the first in a series of introductory articles about new projects that make developing interactive and dynamic web applications easier.

Read the first in a series of introductory articles about new projects that make developing interactive and dynamic web applications easier.

No company on earth had more speakers on the inaugural Ajax World speaker faculty than Sun, including Greg Murray, Servlet 2.5 Specification Lead, now the Ajax architect for Sun... committed to making sure that developers and IT architects are aware how Ajax is agnostic as to what server-side language is being used, be it Java, ColdFusion, PHP, .NET, Perl or whatever. Read the article

There's more than one way to do it with the Java EE 5 SDK and related tools. These hands-on articles detail four approaches by examining a series of NetBeans 5.5 projects based on a single example. The first two articles are available now: Hands-On Java EE and Creating an Ajax-Enabled Bookstore Application, A Do-It-Yourself Approach.

Choose 1 of 6 strategies: Do it Yourself, Use a Client-Side JavaScript Technology Library, Use a Client-Server Framework, Do the Wrap Thing, Go Remote, Go All Java Technology.

No company on earth had more speakers on the inaugural Ajax World speaker faculty than Sun, including Greg Murray Servlet 2.5 Specification Lead, now the Ajax architect for Sun. committed to making sure that developers and IT architects are aware how Ajax is agnostic as to what server-side language is being used, be it Java, ColdFusion, PHP, .NET, Perl or whatever. Read the article.

Deliver feature-rich, cross-browser Internet applications using JavaServer Faces and this one-stop guide.

This tutorial describes how to add the power of Ajax to JavaServer Faces components with some help from the DOJO toolkit.

There are some very good detailed technical explanations of Comet already, but it seems there is some room for a basic discussion of what it is about, what it is good for ? and how it jives with Ajax.

CVR's latest blog reviews a number of Web 2.0 Applications running on Sun Java System Web Server. For the details, check these blogs: Deploying JSPWiki by Sriram (and see the Companion Arcticle); JAAS Login Configuration for JSPWiki) by Joe; and Running jMaki, by Sabada.

Check out the cool new Project jMaki home page and the new visual, Ajax-based widget gallery.

A new 2-day workshop for developers interested in leveraging existing JSF and Ajax-based web-tier components to build web applications. SDN members - use your priority code to get 10% off.

The following topics are covered in this issue: Wondering What Happened to Patch Access via Anonymous FTP?, ZFS, Sun's Cutting-Edge File System (Part 1: Storage Integrity, Security, and Scalability), Solaris 10 6/06 OS Installation Resources, CoolThreads Optimized Open Source Software Stack (Cool Stack), Setting Up Microsoft Windows LPD for Easy Printing on the Solaris OS, Single Sign-On Using Sun Java System Access Manager 2005Q4 and Sun Java System Access Manager Policy Agent 2.2, and Monitoring and Managing Java SE 6 Platform Applications

Developers and IT managers can learn about enterprise Ajax, mobile Ajax, Ajax with Java, Ajax and web services, security issues, and more.

Learn how to develop web applications with Java Studio Creator in just 2 hours. Topics include: components in the visual interface (including Ajax components), creating a project, page navigation, binding components to back-end services, deploying a project, and securing your applications with JAAS.

Chris Kutler shows you how to use jMaki to add a dojo combobox component to a JavaServer Faces application built using using Java Studio Creator.

Shape your future with in-depth technical training on Java EE, Java SE, Java ME, Tools, Solaris OS, and more. Featured keynote: Rich Green, Executive Vice President, Software, Sun Microsystems. Plus attend bonus NetBeans Day and OpenSolaris Day. Space is limited -- Register today.

Read about how to use JavaServer Faces technology to build a library of reusable components and make your web pages' Ajax functionality available to a large community of users.

Through a sample portlet, this article describes several tips on how to take maximum advantage of the benefits of using Ajax in portlets and suggests workarounds for pitfalls.

Ed Burns demonstrates how to implement Ajax-enabled applications using JavaServer Faces. You'll see code from both the page author and component developer points of view, and get a look to the future of mobile and disconnected applications. Hosted by the Orlando chapter of Linux Enthusiasts and Professionals.

This developer conference concentrates on software technology, methods and best practices with six days of reflection, discussions, news, fun and mingling. Ed Burns,on our JavaServer Faces team, is a presenter.

Chris Kutler shows you how to use jMaki to add a dojo combobox component to a JavaServer Faces application built using using Java Studio Creator.

Through a sample portlet, this article describes several tips on how to take maximum advantage of the benefits of using Ajax in portlets and suggests workarounds for pitfalls.

Jennifer Ball posted two new tutorials on how to use jMaki widgets: Getting Started Using jMaki Widgets as JSP Tag Handlers and Using jMaki Widgets as JavaServer Faces Components. Also see the earlier tutorial Using jMaki Widgets.

Take a look at the early access release of Project Dynamic Faces (DynaFaces). Also visit the slides and screencasts page for an introductory presentation by Ed Burns

Read about how to use JavaServer Faces technology to build a library of reusable components and make your web pages' Ajax functionality available to a large community of users.

Learn how to use this Ajax-powered component to give your web applications the ability to display and edit tabular data in various web browsers so your users get responsive, interactive data editing in an spreadsheet like user-interface. After the session, post any webinar-related questions you have on the Ask the Experts page and get answers from the webinar presenters.

Significant design-time performance was the goal for this latest hot fix. Connect to the Update Center to get the all the updates and hot fixes. Haven't got it it yet? Download today, it's free!

Find out how to build a sample Mashup Portlet by merging geospatial data with an Ajax-based mapping service and deploy to Sun Java System Portal Server 7

The following topics are covered in this issue: Easier, Faster Hardware Certification for the Solaris OS, Adding Device Drivers to the New Boot Install Image in the Solaris 10 OS for x86 Platforms, Installing, Managing, and Using Sun Java System Access Manager and Sun Java System Identity Manager on the Solaris 10 OS, Scripting for the Java Platform, and Deploying Web Applications to Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 With NetBeans 5.0 IDE

Last week Jennifer Ball blogged on how to use the new publish/subscribe mechanism in jMaki to handle an event of the jMaki fisheye widget. This week, she describes how she used the jMaki fisheye widget to implement the same use case in a Phobos application.

Ed Burns and Roger Kitain, the co-leads of the JavaServer Faces 1.2 specification, will answer your questions about JavaServer Faces. This technology provides a rich architecture for managing the state of user interface components, processing component data, validating user input, and handling events. Among other things, this makes the technology ideal for implementing Ajax in a web application.

Elisabeth Hendrickson of Quality Tree Software demonstrates using JSUnit and Selenium to test a Web 2.0 application at this Silicon Valley chapter meeting of the ACCU. Free and open to the public. Get the details here.