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Sun offers enterprise Java technologies but is silent on Oracle

Glassfish v3 application server, Netbeans 6.8 IDE, and Java EE 6 SDK among the products announced by Sun

By Paul Krill, InfoWorld, 12/14/09

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"When the application server comes up, only the necessary modules are loaded," said Tom Kincaid, executive director of Sun's application platform organization.

GUI and development tools supported by Enterprise Server v3 include NetBeans, Eclipse, JetBrains IntelliJ Idea, Maven and others. A subscription to Enterprise Server v3 starts in price at $999 per server and features the GlassFish Portfolio. The commercial license for GlassFish includes patches and bug responses not offered for the open source version. GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 is accessible at this Web page.

GlassFish has cloud computing potential, according to Sun.

"We see tremendous opportunity for GlassFish in the cloud and we're doing some work right now in that area," Schmidt said. The company will have news in that vein early next year, he said.

In addition to supporting Java EE 6 with wizard-based development capabilities, the open source NetBeans 6.8 IDE supports development of PHP 5.3 applications and backs the Symfony framework. Capabilities for JavaFX development include improved code completion and navigation for JavaFX in the NetBeans editor.

Possibly as early as next week, Sun plans to introduce a preview of a product for building forms-based applications with JavaFX and NetBeans. The working name of the tool is JavaFX Composer Plugin for NetBeans.

Tighter integration is featured in NetBeans 6.8 with the Project Kenai collaborative environment. Also, profiling is improved for C/C++ development. Version 6.8 also features backing for JSF 2.0/Facelets, Java Persistence 2.0 and EJB 3.1. Full support is offered for the Atlassian Jira project-tracking and integration framework. NetBeans 6.8 can be downloaded from this Web site.

Sun, meanwhile, plans to seek feedback on needs to be included in a successor Java EE 7 release, according to the company.

The GlassFish and NetBeans updates were announced by Sun in partnership with the communities that have arisen around the two technologies.

This story, "Sun offers enterprise Java technologies but silence on Oracle," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in open source at InfoWorld.com.

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