I recently helped a customer migrate their TWiki setup. They were using TWiki on Apache Web Server and wanted to migrate to TWiki on Sun Java System Web Server running on Solaris 9.
The migration went through fine without any major hicups. Since the TWiki documentation does not discuss TWiki installation on Sun Java System Web Server, I thought of sharing the high level steps based on my experience.
Installation Steps:
- Install Revision Control System(RCS 5.7) from http://sunfreeware.com/ on Solaris 9
- Install GNU diff utilities(diffutils-2.8.1) from http://sunfreeware.com/ on Solaris 9
( The above two packages are needed for TWiki software to run)
- Ensure that you have Perl version 5.005_03 or higher(Solaris 9 by default ships with perl and it can be used by TWiki)
- Download Twiki Software(TWiki20040902.tar.gz - production release of 02 Sep 2004)
- Install Sun Java System Web Server 6.1sp4 on the Solaris 9 machine
- Install Twiki software by untarring it to doc_root of Web Server instance
- Enable CGI on the web server instance to be used for Twiki
- Configure the Twiki CFG files(setlib.cfg and TWiki.cfg) as per TWiki Docs
- Create a link to “sendmail” binary(using "ln") as "sendmail" on Solaris by default resides in /usr/lib directory
- Fix ownership/permissions issues of the Twiki install(if needed) to be same as the user id chosen during web server install.
- Edit the TWikiPreferences topic as discussed in TWiki Configuration docs.
- Enable htaccess on the instance (recommended but not mandatory)
- Test Twiki install using the "testenv" script provided by TWiki and fix the warnings if you see any.

That's it! Go to http://host.domainame/twiki/bin/view and start TWiki-ing away!

Buying the best of breed software and a ton of hardware does not always guarantee the creation of a successful software solution. While it is important to choose the right software and hardware to meet the needs of your solution, there are other important factors that play a vital role in the creation of a successful solution. Among other things, the design of a software solution should be done considering availability, scalability, performance, security and integration of software modules. A successful software solution deployment is one that is carefully planned, architected, designed, implemented and backed up with comprehensive hardware and software support. Here at Sun, we have a full range of Solutions and Services offerings available to you. In fact, we have Solution Support Services that will help you in design, development, testing and production phases of the solution lifecycle. Using Solution Support Services will also help improve predictability by increasing availability, decreasing unplanned outages and maximizing efficiencies.

I was visiting San Diego this week and got chance to spend some time at Coronado Island. Coronado Island, located directly across the bay from Downtown San Diego, has one of the best white sandy beaches that I've seen. From this island, you get magnificent panoramic views of Downtown San Diego. Here's a picture from my camera of San Diego as seen from Coronado Island.

I could not get a chance to attend the technical sessions at JavaOne 2005 this time, but I did get a Pavillion Pass to assist with booth duty at Booth 900. Sun architected, built, tested and deployed a solution to enable Bono to call on his fans to join him in his fight against AIDS and poverty. An initiative called the ONE Campaign. This solution is being deployed in real time from the U2 concert venues. Dany is the chief architect and technical lead of all the work we've done with the ONE Campaign initaitive. This demo was built on the web infrastructure suite, Solaris 10 Operating System, and SunFire servers was deployed to create a pragmatic Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution for Bono. You can check out Mary's blogs to know more about this solution.

Yes, I know most of us here at Sun have been blogging about 2005 JavaOne Conference, but believe me the excitement is in the air and we just can't just stop this wave of enthusiasm and exuberance. Its like the Power of Java has cast a magical spell on all of us. And why not? Its one of the world's largest gatherings of developers, and IT managers who are focused on Java technology. Its just a few more hours before the show begins, don't miss it, be there.

Yeah, I know I've been slacking and I don't want to give excuses for being lazy in blogging. I will get straight to my topic. Sun released the all new Sun Java System Web Proxy Server 4.0 a few days back. The Sun Java™ System Web Proxy Server (formerly Sun ONE Web Proxy Server) is a powerful system for caching and filtering Web content as well as boosting network performance. Its a major upgrade release based on a modern HTTP core engine that is HTTP/1.1 compliant and suports IPv6 notation for IP addresses. For additional information, here's the Product Documentation. "Try and Buy" download is available here.

The New Features of the Solaris 10 Operating System course provides students with an overview of the major new features in the Solaris 10 Operating System. And guess what, its free! Go for it!

Google has created a desktop search application that lets people retrieve E-mail, Microsoft Office documents, chat logs and a history of Web pages previously viewed on their PC, all via a Web browser. Google has also launched Google SMS that lets users send queries from mobile phone. Earlier with gmail launch, Google upset the critics because it is designed to collect a person's entire E-mail history. Is this intrusion of privacy or what? Is this a privacy disaster? Imagine all your information Google will have access to if you have a gmail account, you use Google SMS and also use Google desktop search application?

One of my friends send me these amazing pictures.
PICTURES THAT PLAY WITH YOUR MIND!

Having heard and seen demos of Project Looking Glass I was curious to try this myself and get a first hand experience. I decided to run the the Project Looking Glass Developer's Release on my laptop running JDS. I read all about it at Project Looking Glass project site and used this document to set up Project Looking Glass Developer's Release on JDS. Its amazing, you have to try it yourself to experience the mind blowing 3D windowing and visualization capabilities. Kudos to Hideya Kawahara who is the creator of Project Looking Glass!

Per CNET news, Paul Otellini will succeed Craig Barrett as Intel's fifth chief executive. Will he be able to stop the market share slide of Intel? Will AMD-Sun Servers continue to strike at them? Wait and watch, the playing field is getting exciting....

Wow! Check this out: Sun staff give birth to 64-bit Solaris on Opteron. Kudos to the team that made this happen!

Thanks to Torrey McMahon and Rich for pointing out this w.bloggar application

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To share thoughts, ideas and perspective
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A new community driven website launched today to support Java Desktop System(JDS) community. Check out jdshelp.org