Sun Developer Resources

Solaris Developer Site
The Solaris developer site provides to find code samples, blueprints, documentation, and technical articles for maximizing your innovation on the Solaris Operating System platform.

Sun Downloads
Sun offers a huge selection of downloads, including the Solaris Operating System, Java technology, tools, and drivers.

Solaris Migration Assistance
The Solaris Operating System can help you tap new markets and better serve existing customers. Build a stronger foundation for your technology initiatives by turning to Sun experts for all the help you need to move your applications to Solaris.

Solaris Express Editions
Interested in tracking the latest Solaris enhancements? You'll find them first in Solaris Express Community Edition, a version of Solaris built every two weeks and based on the OpenSolaris source code repository. If you would like to be on the leading edge but would prefer a more tested release, consider Solaris Express Developer Edition, Sun's quarterly release, also built from the code at OpenSolaris.org.

Service Provisioning Support
Take advantage of Sun BluePrints, case studies, and training classes to expand your expertise in provisioning network services across advanced service-oriented architectures.

Solaris 10 ISV Solutions
Complete and innovative Applications on Solaris 10 available today from Sun ISV partners.

Community-Based Resources

Sun Developer Tools

Solaris 10 Developer Advantage
Solaris 10 makes your job easier by including integrated, ready-to-use open source developer tools and by delivering breakthrough advanced functionality.

• Developer Tools Included in Solaris 10
• Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) technology for troubleshooting systemic problems in real time and fine-tuning application performance
• DTrace Developer Case Study
• Solaris Containers to build, test, and deploy applications in independent, secure containers on the same system
• Predictive Self Healing to protect your applications against software faults with the simple addition of an XML file

Sun Studio 11
The newest release of Sun's advanced tool suite for optimizing C, C++ and Fortran compilers produce record-setting performance and application development thats adds additional support for Solaris 10 and the x64 platform.

Sun Java Studio Enterprise
Get the most out of Sun's comprehensive and highly optimized development environment for enterprise-class application and Web services development.

• More About Sun Java Studio Enterprise
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Sun Java Studio Creator
Easily create Java technology standards-based Web applications using Sun's innovative visual development environment with drag-and-drop functionality.

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N1 Grid Toolkit
Use the N1 Grid Toolkit and the included free license for the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System software to streamline automation of your complex application provisioning.

SunPlex Agent Builder for Sun Cluster
Use the SunPlex Agent Builder to automate creation of Sun Cluster agents, which are required to tie your applications to the Sun Cluster framework to make them highly available.

• SunPlex Agent Builder Guide
• More Details About Sun Cluster Software