Kai's em novo blog como um funcionário da Sun é agora o The TAO of AMP e os posts mais recentes estão começando a refletir o estilo dele: • Impulsione seu site AMP utilizando mod_rewrite • O Guia de Manga de DataBases Ainda da tempo para adicionar The TAO of AMP à sua lista de leitura diária.

Kai "Oswald" Seidler recently joined the Web Stack team and he has just started a new blog: Oswald@Work. The first two entries are factual and short: Perl now supports DTrace and PHP 5.3 and osCommerce. Welcome to BSC, Kai! BTW, I noticed that there is a new MacOS X version of XAMPP available. We are still working on the relationship between XAMPP and our Web Stack.

More good news around the WebStack team: Kai 'Oswald' Seidler, of Apache Friends and XAMPP fame, has joined the team - see Kai's post (German, mock-english). XAMPP is one of the (the?) most popular WAMP Distros (see Google Trend), and Kai will now be able to work full-time on it. I talked with Kai a few months ago and enjoyed our phone chat a lot but, unfortunately, I was away when he visited Santa Clara recently (photo gallery). One of the topics during the trip was how to leverage the WebStack and the XAMPP efforts; stay tuned for news on that.

Welcome to the team, Kai!

Sun's supported (L)AMP distribution, the GlassFish WebStack, was released last week and the team has several new posts on the new Enterprise Monitor for Apache: • Irfan covers Dashboard and Analytics and Navigation Views and Recent Alerts. • Jeff has an in-depth post on Monitoring Apache Server with Web Stack • Brian shows how to apply the tool in The Enterprise Manager and memcached • Amit shows the tool in action through a (silent) screencast.

I see that Kaj mentioned the (GlassFish) WebStack when telling the story of the MySQL.Com Outage. One of the main benefits of the WebStack is that all the pieces work very well together, so that was one less thing to worry about; the electrical woes were stressful enough...

Sun's LAMP support is assembled from two pieces: the L is from our Linux/GNU Support (see SunSolve entry), while the AMP comes from the GlassFish WebStack, which, in its latest incarnation includes Apache HTTP Server, lighttpd, memcached, MySQL, PHP, Python, Ruby, Squid, Tomcat, GlassFish (v2.1) and Hudson (features).

The inclusion of Hudson is a bit of an opportunistic move (more on that in a bit), the rest comprises a well tested, integrated, optimized, and extended component stack for your new and old Web Apps.

The WebStack can be downloaded here; the bundle includes the WebStack Enterprise Manager, which, unlike the other components, is not free right-to-use but rather is available with an eval license; this is a model like that of the GlassFish Enterprise Manager. The current release supports RHEL, Solaris and OpenSolaris (it is bundled in OpenSolaris); for additional details, check out the Documentation and Discussion Forum.

Check out these posts from the WebStack team:

The latest Sun WebServer is now available (Home Page, Release Notes, Direct Download). This release includes the latest Java Web Container from GLassFIsh and was used in the Record-breaking SPECweb 2005 benchmark on a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220.

See the Release writeups from CVR, Joe and Jyri, and the Benchmark reports from CVR and BMseer. Information on a number of benchmarks is available at the T5220 Benchmark Page.

A tip from Krishna: How to Run Metro on Sun WebServer 7 Update 1

This takes advantage that Metro only depends on Servlet 2.4. Thanks to Vivek for the tip

Earlier this week Sun announced new machines using the UltraSPARC T2. Many of the key contributors have written about them and Allan has a Nice Overview that links to the key posts. The new systems show great performance; check out BMSeer's Posts and the official T5220 page. One result we want to highlight is the Web Tier Benchmark posted using the Sun WebServer (using the GlassFish Java Web Tier). Check out CVR's Writeup and BMSeer's Comparisons.

Congratulations to the Sun WebServer team! And to everybody who got the systems out to market!

Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 update 1 is now available for download (the preview version had been available for a few months). New in this release is: • Performance and stability improvements • Out-of-box Java support for Servlets 2.5, JSP 2.1, JSF 1.2, and more • Support for Java SE 5.0 and 6 • Support for NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 • Administration interface support for FastCGI

You'll notice that the main features are Java-related. Specifically, the product is now at the Java EE 5 specification level which means that any web application that runs on GlassFish now also runs on Sun's Web Server 7.0 Update 1 (the implementation is actually taken straight from GlassFish). On the more technical side of things, you can use dependency injection in the web tier.

When released in early 2007, Web Server 7.0 enjoyed an excellent review and has been powering a whole new set of demanding web sites (including the one serving you this content). Any question, see the dedicated forum.

Java profilers are really useful tools in identifying performance bottlenecks and memory leaks in your Java application. Setting up a profiler to profile a Java web application running in a web or application server usually requires more steps than for profiling a simple commandline application. In this article, Yamini shows you how simple it is to integrate NetBeans Profiler with Web Server 7.0.

ServerWatch has a very positive review of Sun WebServer 7.0 that concludes: In summary, Sun Web Server is generally two times as fast as Apache... The Sun Web Server is fast, flexible, scalable, and a downright joy to run. Other Web servers may still have some benefits, mainly because of administrator familiarity, but if performance and ease of management are paramount, Web Server is the way to go. You can Download and use Sun WebServer 7.0. Development and Deployment is free; Sun's revenue is from Support.

CVR and Marina report on the Technology Preview for Sun WebServer 7.0 UR1. The main improvement in this release is the replacement of the Java Web Tier container with that of GlassFish, conforming to the JavaEE 5 specifications. This means, for example, that things like the Sun Web Developer Pack will run on it. Check CVR's announcement and download the release from here. Also thanks to Marina for the tip.

Previously, Marina and Seema showed you how to run Roller on Web Server 6.1. They've teamed up again to tell you how to run Roller 3.0 on the recently released Web Server 7.0! You can read all about it here.

Here are two recent entries showing how to use fastCGI to enable using Scripting Languages in the new Sun WebServer 7.0. First, check Natarajan detailed blog to learn how to use the new PHP AddOn. Then you can also check Seema and Marina's very detailed article to use Ruby on Rails. All TheAquarium entries related to the Sun WebServer use the WebServer tag. For details on the Sun WebServer 7.0, check the Product Page and the SDN Developer page. The download is available here and the documentation here.