Sun Microsystems has always been innovative in introducing technology to students via different measures. Apart from the various resources(free softwares, study material, tech tips on blogs) that it offers to students via various open source communities and forums, it has also introduced some online courses for students:
Introduction to Solaris and opensolaris.org
An introduction to the Solaris Operating Environment and the
opensolaris opensource project. You will learn about some key
technologies that makes Solaris to be a leading Operating Environment,
ZFS - a new generation of filesystems, Solaris Containers - OS level
Virtualization and DTrace - an revolution in tracing frameworks.
Real World Technologies, NetBeans GUI Builder, JRuby, JavaFX, and Java ME
This is an introduction level course that leads you to the basics of JavaFX, NetBeans GUI, JRuby, and JavaME programming.
These courses are free of cost. You only need a SDN account, that comes for free after simple registration process.
And add to that, you will also earn a certificate on successful completion of the course. What else can you ask for ? 
So, what are you waiting for. Go take these courses and make the best use of your time.
Hi Agraj,
Thanks for writing this blog. It gives clear information for students on how to take these free Sun classes. I just sent you emails regarding how to participate in GlassFish Quality Community. Please take a look and let me know how we can help the students further.
Thanks,
Judy
Posted by Judy on April 16, 2008 at 10:25 AM IST #
i am going to prepare SCSA to give part1 exam. So that i wants some sites on Internet to get study material on SCSA part1. if anybody aware about this then inform...........
Posted by Amit Saha on May 07, 2008 at 10:32 AM IST #
I have submitted my first home work for Real world Tech class from Sun student course.But now the course is closed .What can i do to continue my class?
Posted by pandian on April 01, 2009 at 11:31 AM IST #