Build & deploy your Web 2.0 sites using Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 and popular Wikis and blogging ware.
Monday Sep 25, 2006
You can build & deploy with ease your Web 2.0 sites using Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Preview 3 and popular Wikis and Blogging ware:
Develop your Wiki sites with ease using Web Server 7.0:
Sriram Natarajan and Marina Sum just published first in a series of a technical articles showing how
to get your Wiki sites up and running using Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 and popular Wiki ware viz., JSPWiki, PHP based MediaWiki. See this article for more details: http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/webserver/reference/techart/jspwiki.html
Aside of course, don't miss Joe Mocker's follow up blog on how you could enhance basic JSPWiki deployment with security using Web Server 7.0.
Create a blogging site for your department or team:
Blojsom is a Java-based, lightweight, full-featured, multi-blog, multi-user
weblog application software. It uses the file system as its content database
so that you do not have to setup a database such as MySQL or Oracle and is
ideal if you are setting up a blogging site for a smaller departmental use.
http://blogs.sun.com/seema/entry/using_blojsom_with_web_server.
Speaking of blogging ware, there are other options too: Roller is another
excellent blogging technology that you can readily use with Web Server 7.0.
More details here: http://blogs.sun.com/seema/entry/get_rolling_with_the_latest
Running jMaki based (AJAX-backed widgets) applications with Web Server 7.0
jMaki framework makes it easy to add AJAX-enabled GUI widgets to your web applications.
For more details please review this http://blogs.sun.com/sabada/entry/running_jmaki_on_sun_java.
Running Phobos apps on Web Server 7.0
Project Phobos is a lightweight web application framework which runs
on Java Platoform but allows you to develop your application using scripting
language such as JavaScript. More details here http://blogs.sun.com/mukesh/entry/running_phobos_apps_on_sun
Want to try all this? Download Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Technology Preview 3 here.
Here are a couple of more blogs related to Web Server security that might interest you:
Using Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 with Microsoft Active Directory
Among the many new security-related features in Web Server 7 are a few
new configuration elements for the LDAP auth-db (authentication database).
One use case for these configurable search options is to interoperate with
Microsoft
Active Directory. More details here: http://blogs.sun.com/jyrivirkki/entry/using_web_server_7_with
Solaris 10 Cryptographic Framework and Sun Java System Web Server
7.0
Cryptographic
Framework is one of many new great features in Solaris 10 and Sun Java
System Web Server 7.0 works very well with it. Crypto framework uses familiar
PKCS#11 interfaces to configure the software tokens which interface with
new generation on-chip crypto processors (such as Nigara
Crypto Processor) with ease. For more details please review these: http://blogs.sun.com/meena/entry/solaris_cryptographic_framework_and_web
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/web_server_t1.html











Posted by Thorleif Wiik on September 30, 2006 at 02:37 AM PDT #