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Getting Started in the Cloud With the Sun GlassFish Portfolio
Take advantage of the Sun Glassfish Portfolio in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) public cloud environment. Examples in this paper focus on running applications using the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server in the EC2. (Registration required.)

Troubleshooting OpenSSO With Firefox Add-Ons: Part 5, Identity Provider Initiated Fedlet Single Sign-On
Use the Mozilla Firefox web browser to explore an OpenSSO identity provider initiated fedlet deployment.

Patching the Solaris OS Using Sun Ops Center 2
Learn how to patch the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) using Sun Ops Center.

MySQL White Papers
Get detailed information about MySQL Query Analyzer and Enterprise Monitor.

Troubleshooting OpenSSO With Firefox Add-Ons: Part 4, Service Provider Initiated Fedlet Single Sign-On
Use the Mozilla Firefox web browser to explore an OpenSSO service provider initiated fedlet deployment.

Scalable Data Storage in Project Darkstar
Would you trade recent memory for better performance? Engineers at Sun Labs gave this a try in Project Darkstar, for online games and virtual worlds.

What's New in the MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 Release?
Mark Matthews and Andy Bang, two core developers in the MySQL Enterprise Monitor team, talk about the new features in the latest MySQL Enterprise release.

Sun System Software Stacks on BigAdmin
Find out which releases of Solaris, Sun Studio, Sun Cluster, Sun Java Enterprise System, and others are preinstalled and supported on Sun's SPARC servers.

Firefox 3.6 Will Require Java SE 6 Update 10 or Later
Mozilla Firefox 3.6, coming in November 2009, will require the user to have installed Java SE 6 Update 10 or later.

Delegating XML Gateway Runtime Authorization to OpenSSO
Learn how access control rules defined in OpenSSO can be enforced at runtime by SecureSpan XML Gateway through its native OpenSSO integration agent.

Web Application Tuning on Chip Multithreading Platforms
Here is an example of using jstack and tuning web applications to prevent performance bottlenecks on chip multithreading (CMT) platforms.

Solaris 10 10/09 Now Available for Download!
The Solaris 10 10/09 Operating System includes turbocharge install and patching, ZFS enhancements, great performance on the latest x64 and SPARC processors, 10 Gigabit speedups.

VirtualBox 3.0.8 Is Released
This maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.0 improves stability and performance.

Sun Java Communications Suite 7 Goes Live
Find out why the Sun Java Communications Suite is the number one messaging and collaboration platform for service providers.

Enabling Web Service Security With OpenSSO WSS Agent
Learn how to write a web service with JAX-WS, secure it with OpenSSO WSS Agent, and deploy it on Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, GlassFish, and WebSphere.

Mixins in JavaFX 1.2 Technology
Learn about the "mixin class," a new feature in JavaFX 1.2 that offers programmers a simplified form of multiple inheritance.

Sun Support Resources for System Administrators
The new BigAdmin Support hub covers Sun services and solutions of interest to sys admins, for example, different support scenarios for Solaris and OpenSolaris.

Screencast: Learn How to Submit Applications to the Java Warehouse
Bernard Traversat, director of Java Store engineering, shows how easy it is for developers to register for the Java Warehouse Developer Portal. Note: As the Java Store process is in beta, some steps may have changed slightly since this screencast was recorded.

Monitoring Performance Counters for UltraSPARC T2 Plus External Coherency Hub Architecture
You can use the busstat command in the Solaris 10 OS to monitor performance counters for the UltraSPARC T2 Plus External Coherency Hub on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server.

Deep Dive Video: What's New in JDK 7
Sun Developer Network's Ed Ort interviews Danny Coward of the Java client team to see what's new and exciting in JDK 7.

Case Study: Provisioning MySQL Enterprise Server Using Sun xVM Ops Center v2.0
Author Hunter Li offers sample support scripts for provisioning MySQL Enterprise Server and its replication environment.

Securing REST Web Services With OAuth
Explore an example REST application that uses the open-source protocol OAuth to address security issues.

Installing Solaris 10 5/09 OS on IBM HS22 Type 7870 Blade Server
This Sun tech tip provides a workaround for using the GUI during boot or during installation of the Solaris 10 5/09 OS on the IBM HS22 Type 7870 Blade Server.

GlassFish Web Space Server Demonstration
Sun's Richard Maldonado gives an overview of Sun GlassFish Web Space Server, a complete user interaction platform available with the GlassFish Portfolio that delivers both a traditional portal platform and a web content management platform. (Login or registration required.)

Hands-On Lab: Use Eclipse to Develop for the GlassFish Application Server
This hands-on lab session presents the GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse, which you can use to configure, deploy, and monitor the GlassFish application server.

Solaris Application Memory Management
Learn the basics of application memory management on the Solaris OS, and avoid and resolve common memory usage problems.

Develop With PHP
Check out the new resource center for designing and developing web applications using PHP: news, blogs, and more.

Java Champion Adam Bien on Java EE and Cloud Computing
Java Champion, Rock Star, and Java EE expert Adam Bien shares his views on Java EE and cloud computing.

MySQL Librarian
The MySQL Librarian collects the best articles and blog postings from the MySQL community.

Running SAP ERP 6.0 With Oracle Database on the Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System
Implement an SAP ERP 6.0 app on the Solaris 10 OS for x64 platforms with Oracle as the database platform and volumes on a Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System that are mounted via NFS.

Getting Started With Project Darkstar
Try these excellent tutorials for open-source Project Darkstar, a software infrastructure to simplify the development and operation of massively scalable online games, virtual worlds, and social networking applications.

Developing MySQL Database Applications With PHP, Part 4: Using the MySQL Native Driver for PHP, mysqlnd
The MySQL native driver for PHP, mysqlnd, is an alternative to the MySQL client library, libmysql, for connecting from PHP to MySQL Server.

Java ME SDKs: State of the Union
The Java ME platform is huge, robust, and versatile. This article provides a compatibility matrix of SDKs and APIs.

Introducing Java DB 10.5.1.1
The new release of Java DB introduces scalability, faster streaming of large binary and text objects, fast in-memory databases, SQL roles, and more.