Saturday Aug 29, 2009
Sun Web Server
is the secure web serving platform of choice for large-scale
enterprises world wide. Published by Sun Microsystems and Pearson
Education (Prentice Hall), here comes the authoritative, comprehensive
guide to Sun
Web Server 7.0, by Bill Nelson, Arvi Srinivasan and myself. We are
indebted to Bill Nelson - chief instructor training Web Servers
customers worldwide - who authored significant portion of
the book. Arvi - one of web tier architects - filled in several
valuable
sections too. Of course, we are proud to have the foreword by Scott
G. McNealy!
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Tuesday Jun 09, 2009
It's particularly a great endorsement when your customers say - I have
fallen in love with your products, is it not? Sun.com, javafax.com,
opensolaris.com and a number of online properties are managed by our
Sun.com engineering (whom I like to call it as the Enterprise 2.0
team!) I thought it was pretty neat when I read (only recently, my
bad), Jed Michnowicz praises simplicity of using Web Server 7.0.
http://blogs.sun.com/twothirds/entry/webserver_7_tricks.
Speaking of Sun Web Server 7.0 - check out
http://www.sunwebserver.com/.
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Thursday May 14, 2009
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Monday Apr 27, 2009
Sun Blogs (blogs.sun.com) turns 5 today! Terrific job by .Sun engineering team!
We are proud to see Sun Web Server 7 and MySQL integral part of the Sun Blogs infrastructure - and you will find more details here in this article - http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/sunblogs_webserver.jsp
Happy Birthday, Sun Blogs!
Cheers.
cvr
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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.
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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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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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
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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Monday Sep 10, 2007
Janice Hunt has published an excellent article on handling Chunked data with NSAPI plugins.
Friday Aug 31, 2007
Wikification of Sun highlights the new generation of publishing at Sun including blogs.sun.com and now wikis.sun.com.
As we noted earlier, like blogs.sun.com, wikis.sun.com is served by Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 running on the award winning first generation Niagara based T2000 servers.
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Thursday Jul 19, 2007
Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP7 (English) has been released and is available for download:
Download
Release Notes
This is a bug-fix and compatibility release. All users of Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 are encouraged to update.
Users should note these important changes in this release:
- JDK is no longer bundled on AIX and HP-UX platforms. The installer will enforce the requirement that the JDK be previously installed on these platforms.
- SSL libraries updated to latest version.
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Congratulations guys! Great to see it finally out....