Some Technologies that you must watch for .
One thing that most of the people will agree is that Web is going to Rule the next generation of Computer Technology.
Web is a hot cake for all firms , be it Microsoft, sun or other open source firms.
In countries like India, merely 2% people have Internet connection in their home. And around 10 % people access through office regularly.
Some 20 % person use it from Cybercafe one or twice in a week. So, considering these figures, it is clear that it will be uncontrollable once 20-30 % person uses web regularly. Current infrastructure development and emerging development in web world , both will push these growth and these figures doesn't seem far.
Other than these , there are countries , which have almost no web interaction. So as web infrastructure and popularity peaks, web is guaranteed to reach a much wider horizon than it is currently.
In market space also, emergence of Google is a proof of the expected growth .
The 2 big software solution providers namely Microsoft and Sun have introduced their solutions namely .NET and J2EE .
Both are good, popular in market and growing. Though Sun solution have edge being Platform independent , Open Source , Scalable and popular,
at the same time .NET is preferred for ease of development and Federated solutions.
Here is a brief introduction of some of the Sun technology that has the potential to significantly contribute in coming Web revolution.
Sun FAM / OpenSSO: Fam stands for Federated Access Management. Its built on top of LDAP and is currently the most sophisticated User management system.
It supports pluggable login support like Enigma card , JDBC and many other.
Fam has a good maturity of over 8 years. And most recently OpenSSO , which is open version of Fam, will certainly going to be the default choice for most of the Enterprise. A superb interactive GUI eases the conjugation and management of system.
Sun Java Enterprise System : A solid Directory system , which can host Fam/OpenSSO for user management. Its in use for a long time , easy to configure and use. Works perfectly with conjugation with Glassfish / Most J2EE application Servers. It also uses LDAP for data storage , which might be re-configured with jdbc or others.
Glassfish : An exceptionally good J2EE application server from Sun Microsystems Community,its the biggest success in terms of ease of configuration and management. Totally written in Java, it is very easy to install, manage,and configure. Simple command like start, stop works. It has got an interactive web console which can be tame by even a new comer.
EJB 3.0 : Ejb is here for a decade now. It has gradually come from an optional to a must solution for big enterprise. Its architecture, Scalability,Robustnes and reliability has multiplied many fold in past few years. Its one stop solution for big enterprise.