Sun Web 2.0 Technical Resources

last updated on 2008-12-18

These resources provide technical information about Sun's Web 2.0 offerings.

Web sites and resource centers:

• Web Developer Resource Center, a source for all the tools, technologies, hardware, service, and support you need to develop and deploy next-generation web applications

• Web Tier web site on Sun Developer Network (SDN), which provides resources for Sun's web-tier solutions, Sun Java System Web Server and Sun Java System Web Proxy Server, which are both components of Sun Java Enterprise System

• Next Generation Web Technologies and Projects, a glossary and links to the next-generation web technologies and projects provided by Sun

• Web Developer Resources for Java EE, which provides resources for Java EE platform technologies you can use to build collaborative, community-focused applications, such as a wiki or blogging server

• Ajax Technology Center, which provides resources for Ajax, a technology that includes, but is not limited to, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, and is used in many web applications, such as Google Maps and Flickr

• Sun OpenSSO Enterprise web site, which provides resources for Sun OpenSSO Enterprise (formerly Sun Access Manager and Sun Federation Manager), a solution for web access management, federation, and web services security

• The Sun BluePrints Web BluePrints page, which provides links to Sun BluePrints, blogs, and wikis related to Web technologies

• Information and links for the Web 2.0 Scalable Performance Toolkit, which includes:

  • A comprehensive set of reference implementations, BluePrints, performance tools, and best practices
  • Olio, an open source contribution to apache.org's incubator projects that enables easy testing of different development technologies of complex web infrastructures
  • Optimized Web Stack download binaries

Articles, blogs, and wikis:

• Creating Web 2.0-Enabled Communities With Sun Java System Portal Server, an SDN article that describes how web technologies, such as aggregation capabilities, community support, self-publishing features, and collaboration services, can help you build "the read/write web"

• Sun Forums: A Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Reference Deployment, a BigAdmin article that provides system architecture, configuration, and deployment troubleshooting info for the Sun Forums web site, one of the busiest sun.com sites, which is deployed on Sun Java System Web Server 7.0

• Sun Blogs: A Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Reference Deployment, a BigAdmin article that provides usage statistics, system architecture, and configuration info for one of the busiest externally facing Web 2.0 site deployments at Sun, plus the system administrator's experience managing the site (registration required)

• Risk, Reach, and Return: Everything Today's CISO Needs to Know About Using SSO to Succeed in the Web 2.0 Era (pdf), a white paper that describes what Chief Information Security Officers need to know about Single Sign-On technology to ensure their enterprises are open yet secure in the Web 2.0 era

• Social Networking Wiki, which provides links to articles, books, videos, and other resources about social networking and Web 2.0

• The Project SocialSite Blog, which provides news and notes about social networking, social software, trends, and information about Sun's new project SocialSite

Sun training resources at http://www.sun.com/training/:

• Web 2.0 Technology Learning Path
• Web 2.0 and Java Web Site Development (DTH-314)
• Web 2.0: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Ajax and the Dojo Toolkit (VSEM-DTJ-2100)
• Web 2.0: Leveraging the Project jMaki and Google Web Toolkits for Rapid Website Development (SEM-DTJ-2128)