Connecting the dots with Solaris and middleware In the middle

Given the popularity of system or server virtualization products and technologies including VMware, Xen, Sun xVM VirtualBox, etc. in addition to Sun's upcoming xVM Server product, partners, prospects and customers often ask whether Sun supports the deployment of our middleware on these environments.  Historically, we've provided inconsistent answers to this question.   Fortunately, Sun recently released an official support statement to help address this issue.

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Updated March 9, 2009

The Update Center 2 Toolkit project is demonstrating how the Image Packaging System, also known as the pkg(5) System, can deliver the following features for multi-platform layered applications:

• Multi-OS platform packaging of packages and updates
  
• Pre-installed installation images
• Ongoing installation image management
  
• Network repository-based delivery of add-ons and updates 
• Desktop notification of updates and new add-ons
  

This article describes the results of the first of several experiments intended to demonstrate how projects' build environments can be enhanced to deliver pkg(5)-based distributions. In this article we address the first stage of an experiment based on the popular OpenDS project.[Read More]