APAC Extended Horizons Summit 2008 in Sydney, Australia

Learn new techniques and successful strategies for using products such as Sun Java Enterprise System and MySQL. (Conference is happening May 25-27, 2008.)

Posted at 09:00AM May 14, 2008 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Writing Your First Web Application Using PHP on the Solaris OS

Create a sample program using PHP on the Solaris OS with the NetBeans 6.0 IDE.

Posted at 06:00AM May 14, 2008 by cs, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  |  Comments[2]

Unify Browser and Desktop Experience - Draggable Applet

The new draggable feature in Applet unifies user's browser and desktop experience -
The New Plug-In allows you to drag an Applet off from a browser to your desktop
and allows your Applet continues to run. In addition to dragging an Applet off from a browser, when user closes the
a shortcut can also be created from this draggable Applet. The shortcut utilizes Java Web Start
technology and allow user to launch the Applet with Java Web Start without
opening a web browser. Thus, this feature unifies desktop
application deployment via Java Web Start technology, and Applet deployment
inside the browser.

Download the latest build of 6u10 and try out this new exciting feature!
 

Posted at 10:42AM May 13, 2008 by Roger Yeung in Java SE 6 Update N  |  Comments[0]

New Sun x64 Systems With Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors

Check out the quad-core availability for the newest additions to Sun's x64 product line: the Sun Fire X4140, X4240, and X4440 servers. In addition, Sun is offering AMD quad-core support for the Sun Blade X8440 and Sun Fire X4200 M2, X4100 M2, and X2200 M2 servers. 

Posted at 10:00AM May 13, 2008 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

USENIX Annual Technical Conference

June 22-27, 2008
Boston, MA USA
Join the community of programmers, developers, and systems professionals at USENIX in sharing solutions and fresh ideas.

Posted at 06:00AM May 13, 2008 by cs, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  |  Comments[0]

Two Sun Software Engineer Openings on OpenSolaris Web Stack

Sun is hiring two entry-level software engineers, one in Burlington, MA, and another in Santa Clara, CA, for the OpenSolaris Web Stack Project. In addition to becoming involved in the development, enhancement, and integration aspects of the project, the incumbents will actively participate in the open-source communities concerned.

Posted at 04:42PM May 12, 2008 by cw, managing editor in Enterprise Java  |  Comments[0]

Rails Conference

May 29-June 01, 2008
Portland, Oregon, USA
RailsConf is the largest official conference dedicated to everything Rails. RailsConf incorporates keynotes, sessions and tutorials and the most innovative and successful Rails experts and companies, providing attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies.

Posted at 12:42PM May 12, 2008 by cs, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  |  Comments[0]

How to Enable Embedded Bitmap Fonts

Would you like to improve the on-screen appearance of small pixel sizes? This tech tip provides an example of how to enable embedded bitmap fonts for TrueType fonts such as the UMing TrueType font.

- Chinese-language version on BigAdmin Multilingual hub

Posted at 09:00AM May 12, 2008 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Java SE 6 Update 10 Build 23 is now available

Java SE 6u10-b23 is now available for download. For a list of fixes in b23, please see the summary of changes.

You can submit bugs against 6u10 here: http://bugreport.sun.com

For comments and feedback:

• For Deployment Toolkit, Java Kernel, and Java Update (patch-in-place): JRE Installer & Auto Update Forum
• For Java QuickStarter: Java Quick Starter Forum
• For Nimbus: Swing & AWT Forum
• For Direct3D: Java2D Forum
• For general issues: 6uN Early Access
• For the New Java System Properties: 6uN Early Access

Posted at 02:32PM May 09, 2008 by Roger Yeung in Java SE 6 Update N  |  Comments[1]

Case Study: Using DTrace and truss in the Solaris 10 OS

Using DTrace and truss can turn you into a real sleuth, as this case study shows. While troubleshooting an issue with adding a new user, the author found that someone had tried to log in secretly. A Chinese version is up on the BigAdmin Multilingual Hub.

Posted at 09:00AM May 09, 2008 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

New Course: Solaris and opensolaris.org

An introduction to the Solaris Operating Environment and the OpenSolaris open source project.

Posted at 06:00AM May 09, 2008 by cs, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  |  Comments[0]

Creating a Java EE Appliance on OpenSolaris

At the JavaOne conference, Sun technical evangelists Peter Karlsson and Chuk-Munn Lee discussed how to build a Java EE platform-based appliance with the GlassFish application server on OpenSolaris. Read more in this article.

Posted at 06:33PM May 08, 2008 by cw, managing editor in Enterprise Java  |  Comments[0]

Scripts for Automating Network System Checks

Here's a tech tip submitted by the BigAdmin community. These scripts automate network system checks for logs, disk failure prediction messages, and patches.

Posted at 09:00AM May 08, 2008 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Using Intel's Threading Building Blocks (TBB) with Sun Studio 12

Discover how to use Sun Studio to build Intel's Threading Building Blocks (TBB), an open-source runtime library that reduces the effort required to express parallelism in C++ programs.

Posted at 06:00AM May 08, 2008 by cs, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  |  Comments[0]

Java-Centricity -- Java Technology at the Hub of Your Digital Life

This year's JavaOne Conference technical general session hosted by Sun Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer for Software, Bob Brewin, highlighted what's new in the Java EE and Java SE platforms. It was also spiced up by a variety of cool JavaFX-driven demos.

Posted at 05:38PM May 07, 2008 by cw, managing editor in Enterprise Java  |  Comments[0]