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Sun Java Application Platform Suite
Frequently Asked Questions
General QuestionsQ: What is the Sun Java Application Platform Suite?
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The Sun Java Application Platform Suite offers the most secure and flexible middleware platform that delivers enterprise applications, information, and processes to virtually any device. It offers all of the tools and functionality organizations need to rapidly develop, deploy, and manage service-oriented solutions across the value chain--to virtually any device.
Specifically, the suite offers a cohesive IT infrastructure that provides a SOA platform, a business services repository, business process platform and management, rich client portal, content management support, and an RFID framework management architecture. Q: How does the Sun Java Application Platform Suite help me?
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Your ability to rapidly respond to customers and dynamic market requirements depends on your company's ability to share information and coordinate services both inside and outside the firewall. More than ever, having information and other resources available when you need it - and in a way that you can use it with others - depends on the security and flexibility of your middleware platform. Traditionally, however, proprietary, non-integrated, or otherwise application-specific solutions (a.k.a. "vertical silos") have constrained businesses from coordinating workflow along the value chain, thereby hindering your ability to predict and respond to change.
Sun Java Application Platform Suite overcomes business disruptions that are a consequence of inflexible middleware platforms or those prone to vulnerabilities. The suite enables the coordination of business processes that reach horizontally across the value chain and vertically to industry segments. The Sun Java Application Platform Suite is a subset of Sun Java Enterprise System that enables you to maximize the business value derived from the reuse of software and services, the integration of business processes, and heterogeneous servers, clients, and devices. Q: How does my company benefit from the Sun Java Application Platform Suite?
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With the Sun Java Application Platform Suite, companies realize:
Q: Why Should I buy the suite, instead of individual components?
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The Application Platform Suite is a cost-effective way to develop, deploy and manage web services, as well as to provide the foundation for service-oriented solutions for a heterogeneous network of services, clients and devices.
The Suite is a subset of the Java Enterprise System, a unique portfolio of software infrastructure products that are systematically integrated, rigorously tested and released on a regular, synchronized schedule. This means you don't need to buy the complete offering of Java Enterprise System to benefit from its cohesive IT infrastructure and license model that affords: license, maintenance and services savings; infrastructure labor cost savings; and reduced costs associated with fewer downtime and faster time-to-market. Furthermore, as upgrades to the components of the Suite become available, these will be automatically integrated with the Application Platform Suite subscription offering, thus strengthening the appeal of its middleware platform. Moreover, the Suite presents a comfortable alternative of narrowing the vendor list without becoming "locked in" to a technology strategy. The Application Platform Suite offers an affordable approach to buying and implementing software across multiple projects. The procurement model relieves the burden of costing out each license for every project. The Suite, which includes the highly available Application Server, Portal and Web Servers, Access Manager, Directory Server and development tools, is offered at a lower price than the complete Java Enterprise System, that is: $50/employee/year for the Suite verus $140/employee/year for the entire system. Q: What products and functions are included in the Sun Java Application Platform Suite and what do they do?
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The Application Platform Suite includes the following products and functions:
Q: Which platforms are supported with the Sun Java Application Platform Suite?
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The Application Platform Suite supports:
Q: How is Sun Java APS 2005Q4 different from its previous release?
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New features and enhancements include:
Q: How secure is the Sun Java Application Platform Suite?
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Sun Java Application Platform Suite delivers the most secure infrastructure in the industry. It is secure by design. Sun's mature code base continues to go through countless architectural, design and engineering reviews to eliminate security vulnerabilities before the product is released. For example:
Q: Can I run my operating system of choice with the Sun Java Application Platform Suite?
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Yes. Sun's approach to providing a truly flexible IT architecture through open, standards-based systems and its commitment to multi-platform support accommodates your enterprise's IT strategy (and not the other way around). For example, the Application Platform Suite runs on Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and Windows - specifically:
Q: Can I run various components of choice with the Sun Java Application Platform Suite?
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Yes. Sun leads the industry with the most interoperable, open, standards-based platform that enables you to gain a clear, coherent SOA strategy that explicitly supports a heterogeneous infrastructure. For instance, the Application Platform Suite supports Java and .Net interoperability. The platform also supports running its Sun Java Portal Server on
WebSphere and WebLogic application servers; that is, you can choose
Sun's market-leading application server or integrate with an existing
application server infrastructure. For more information about how Sun enables interoperable, application-to-application communication over the Internet, see
Java Technologies and Web Services Platforms.
Q: Where can I ask questions about Sun Java Application Platform Suite?
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If you have specific questions about the Sun Java Application Platform Suite, please contact your
local sales representative
or complete this brief Contact Request form.
Q: How do I buy the Sun Java Application Platform Suite?
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Customers can order the Sun Java Application Platform Suite by contacting a Sun sales representative or an authorized Sun Partner. The part number for the Sun Java Application Platform Suite is ST019-00S-99H9 (standard support) and ST019-00P-99H9 (premium support).
You can download the Application Platform Suite via the Java Enterprise System download site. For more information on specifically what needs to be downloaded to access the entire application platform suite, see: http://www.sun.com/software/javaenterprisesystem/get.xml Q: I have one or more of the components. It's more cost-effective to upgrade to a suite. How do I do that?
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Please contact your local sales representative to evaluate your current IT portfolio and determine which upgrade path is most cost-effective.
Q: What is the best way to evaluate the Sun Java Application Platform Suite before I buy?
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A 60-day "try and buy" program is available to customers that intend to purchase a one-year (or longer) subscription of Java Enterprise System or any of its suites. For more information about this limited promotion,
click here.
Service & SupportQ: How does the Sun Java Application Platform Suite fit in with the Java Enterprise System?
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The Java Enterprise System is an integrated set of shared network services that sit between an organization's operating system and its business applications. The Java Enterprise System delivers a complete end-to-end infrastructure solution comprised of a core set of network services that address specific business challenges. The Application Platform Suite enables organizations to respond to these business drivers:
Q: What information resources are there about Sun Java Application Platform Suite?
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Most frequently "inquired about" resources for the Sun Java Application Platform Suite:
Q: Where can I ask questions about Sun Java Application Platform Suite?
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If you have specific questions about the Sun Java Application Platform Suite, please contact your
local sales representative or
complete this brief Contact Request form.
Migration QuestionsQ: How do I migrate to Sun Java Application Platform Suite?
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See the Sun Java Enterprise System Planning and Executing Migration Strategies white paper to learn about Sun's migration approach and services. Sun and its
partners offer a full range of migration support, including architectural workshops, installation service, custom consulting services, training services, and migration tools. To learn more about these service offerings, see
http://www.sun.com/service/sunjavasystem/javaenterprisesystem.html and http://www.sun.com/software/products/appsrvr/migration/index.xml#docs. Note: The subscription license for the Application Platform Suite includes some of the aforementioned services.
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