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If you are a docs.sun.com user, you probably experienced some latency (or even worse) while navigating the site. We're glad to report docs.sun.com now hosted on a Sun external web-hosting environment with much improved performance. Try for yourself with Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 (GlassFish v2) beta documentation. While blogs are great and show up prominently while searching the Internet, some of them become obsolete and official documentation is really what should preempt other content. |
BTW - if you're interested in Internet and XML archeology, you can read how Jon Bosak (XML co-inventor, Sun employee) first implemented Solaris documentation about 10 years ago under the name AnswerBook2 with an all-XML background. This later became docs.sun.com.
Posted by Adam Khel on July 11, 2007 at 02:24 PM PDT #
Posted by Gregory Murphy on July 11, 2007 at 03:43 PM PDT #
Posted by Anantha on July 11, 2007 at 06:16 PM PDT #
Posted by Mikael Gueck on July 11, 2007 at 07:20 PM PDT #
Anantha, I'll pass on your kind words.
Posted by Alexis MP on July 11, 2007 at 10:31 PM PDT #
Posted by Rintoul on July 12, 2007 at 04:13 PM PDT #
Posted by Alexis MP on July 14, 2007 at 08:24 AM PDT #
While XML is now the data format for publication on the docs.sun.com[SM] site, the documentation is actually written to the same SGML DTD (several revisions on, admittedly) that was used when the Solaris[TM] OS documentation was migrated to the AnswerBook2[TM] product.
Writing in 1996 in defense of print, then Sun distinguished engineer Jakob Nielsen said:
I hope that the recent improvements to the site will offer the same tremendously enhanced user performance and satisfaction.
Posted by Paul Davies on July 19, 2007 at 12:33 PM PDT #