Friday Dec 12, 2008
I am happy to announce that Web Server 7.0 Update 4 has been released. It can be downloaded here.
The Release Notes are here. In addition to bug fixes and stability improvements, this release introduces better compatibility with CGI and FastCGI applications by providing REQUEST_URI and SCRIPT_FILENAME variables, support for default-sun-web.xml, and certification of OpenSolaris 2008.11 as a supported platform.
All users of Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 through Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 3 and prior releases are encouraged to upgrade.
Friday Nov 14, 2008
We'd like to present two recent papers outlining the reference deployment of how Sun Web Server is deployed -
1. A paper has been published describing how blogs.sun.com (Sun Blogs infrastructure) uses Sun Java System Web Server 7.0.
2. It's also worth looking at an older article detailing how forums.sun.com uses Sun Java System Web Server 7.0.
Cheers.
Wednesday Jul 23, 2008
Today at OSCON Sun announced many things that I think are cool, but two of them have special value to me.
- We
are open sourcing the core functionality of our Web Server (known
variously as Sun Java System Web Server, Sun ONE Web Server, iPlanet
Web Server, Netscape Enterprise Server) and our Web proxy Server (known
by the same various brands as our Web Server). The code will be under
the BSD license providing the maximum possible portability of the
project, and will bring Sun more fully into the open source HTTP
server community. This will happen on the OpenSolaris Web Stack
community sometime in CYQ3 2008.
- Sun will be offering
production support for the *AMP stack on Solaris, OpenSolaris, and
various Linux flavors. The Sun Web Stack will be a product of the
OpenSolaris Web Stack community and a continuation of the work already
released as Cool Stack. Support wilol be available in CYQ3 2008.
Exciting times around the ol' Web Tier water dispenser.
General Press Release
ComputerWorld article
Sunday Jul 06, 2008
Nearly six months after previous update release, Sun Web Server 7.0 Update 3 (U3) shipped last week. In addition to complying with SPECweb world record submission with multi-socket Huron systems launched earlier [see Rise of CMT systems], U3 release delivers important and incremental quality improvements to the product, consistent with the customer requested enhancements and platform additions. Most notable improvements include: IBM AIX platform support, Auto-deployment of web applications and stability of FastCGI based applications.
Please download the bits and review the release notes here.
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Sunday Jun 08, 2008
Hope you like Sun's efforts open sourcing its flagship operating system, OpenSolaris. On behalf OpenSolaris Web Stack community, we are proud to nominate OpenSolaris for community choice award at sourceforge.net. Hope you would agree and nominate OpenSolaris for the Community Choice award!
Cheers.
OpenSolaris Web Stack team
Wednesday Apr 09, 2008
With another impressive launch of multi-socket CMT systems, we have a new SPECweb world record publication today using the
upcoming Sun Web Server 7.0 Update 3 (to be available later this
quarter). With this, we are yet again demonstrating the power, scalability and
throughputof these CMT systems. Sun Web Server 7.0 is probably the best CMT ready main stream, general purpose web server today.
So, we are pushing the current world record - up by 1801 simultaneous
user sessions!
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Tuesday Apr 08, 2008
Nope, we are not talking about Web Server 8.0! Just a few updates into 2008!
Since its release earlier in 01/07, Sun Web Server 7.0 has been deployed widely into production uses at Sun
and by well respected sites. Update releases are continuing to help
improve quality incorporating features and performance innovations -
e.g. upgrade to Java container, PHP Add On, administration support for
FastCGI, etc. To top it all, WS7.0u2 released in 12/07 set the world record SPECweb benchmark with staggering performance on the coolest server platform on the planet (Niagara 2 based T5220), thanks to its MT-hot design ideal for multi-core CMT systems, a new innovative asynchronous accelerator cache design and a host top to bottom system level innovations such as 10Gbit Ethernet networking etc.
With MySQL now integral part of Sun's Software portfolio,
there is no question that '08 is a significant milestone for Sun
Software and Web Server. After all, our blogs.sun.com infrastructure is
powered by Web Server + MySQL running on a couple of Niagara T2000
servers. Indeed, this combination is very potent in that it can handily
outperform the competition (Microsoft IIS and SQL Server) both in raw
performance, throughput and power consumption, as demonstrated by this OLTP/Web worlkload benchmark.
By the way, here a couple of more articles/blogs that caught our attention:
Another cool article titled - "Using Subversion, NetBeans IDE, and Sun Java System Web Server With Java ME" by Richard Marejka. Demonstrates using Web Server's WebDAV capability (Admin GUI lets you create DAV Collections and all that) to configure Subversion which can be used from NetBeans for your development activities. Richard's article is showcased on the web tier developer hub.
John Pelonquin's blog on Moodle on Solaris/Sun Web Server: Moodle—a PHP-driven, open source course management system for online learning—on one of our enterprise class servers running Sun Solaris 10 and Sun Java System Web Server 7.0. For details visit John's blog post.
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Thursday Mar 13, 2008
I'm delighted to report that Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP9 has made it into the wild:
http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=47d5d3eb
This is a bug fix release. All users of Web Server 6.1 SPx are encouraged to upgrade.
Tuesday Feb 05, 2008
With the launch of Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE 01/08), we
now have an integrated a stack of popular open source web tier
technologies, including Apache, PHP, MySQL, Squid proxy etc.
There is a whole bunch of web stuff to try and experience in SXDE 01/08.
The stack is being built in open source on http://opensolaris.org/os/project/webstack/.
So, come and join!
Open Solaris Web Stack team
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/webstack/
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Friday Dec 21, 2007
Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 2 has been released.
This release contains the performance improvements that allowed the T5220 launch to set a new world record SPECweb2005 benchmark:
http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t5220/benchmarks.jsp#4
Web Server 7.0 Update 2 features a substantial performance update to the server core for all platforms, and introduces a PKCS#11 bypass feature to achieve better SSL performance out-of-the-box. This release also includes more administration options, Solaris Monitoring Framework (SMF) integration, certification on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and the introduction of 64-bit binary support for Linux, NetBeans 6 support, bug and stability fixes, an integrated news feed to keep users up-to-date, and much more!
All users of Web Server 7.0 or Web Server 7.0 Update 1 are encouraged to upgrade.
Download:
https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=SJWS-7.0U2-OTH-G-F@CDS-CDS_SMI
Tuesday Nov 13, 2007
Web Proxy Server version 3.6 Service Pack 11 has been released. All users of Web Proxy Server version 3.6 (inclusive of all Service Packs) are encouraged to install this release. It can be downloaded from:
http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=472a622f
Wednesday Oct 10, 2007
Sriram Natarajan, a developer with the Sun Java System Web Server team, has published an article about using the Quercus PHP Java implementation with Sun Java System Web Server 7.0.
Tuesday Oct 09, 2007
Sun announces the most scalable and eco-friendly web server on the planet, powered by Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 2, Java SE and Solaris 10 08/07! For benchmark details see the full announcement and bmseer's blog.
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Thursday Oct 04, 2007
Web Proxy Server 4.0.6 has been released and is available for download.
Download Link
All users of Web Proxy Server 4.0.x are encouraged to update.
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