This second article in a series covers the more technical features, such as RSS and Atom tasks and local storage using JavaFX's built-in storage classes.
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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.)
Sun's Carol McDonald blogs about her presentation on Java garbage collection, monitoring, and tuning. Read more
Do you have a desktop application that you'd like to distribute via the Java Store? Convert a desktop application into a Java Web Start application. Download the source code
Use jstack and tune your Web applications to prevent performance bottlenecks on chip multithreading (CMT) platforms.
Do you want to learn about JavaFX Script technology? This book is a quick and easy read for those who are already familiar with GUI programming in the Java platform.
Sun is opening the Java Warehouse to developers in selected countries. Developers in these countries can submit applications for free distribution in the U.S.
Learn how to perform the tasks most commonly required for developing JavaFX applications. Look up the solution that best answers your question.
Install and configure the open-source Joomla! Content Management System with Sun's Unified Storage systems. The Sun servers in this setup run the OpenSolaris 2009.06 release and PHP, MySQL, and Apache web server from pkg.opensolaris.org.
This Tech Tip shows you how to implement the POST-REDIRECT-GET (PRG) pattern in JavaServer Faces 2.0 technology.
Troubleshooting OpenSSO with Firefox Add-Ons: Part 5, Identity Provider Initiated Fedlet Single Sign-On
Use the Firefox web browser to explore an OpenSSO identity provider initiated fedlet deployment.
You can preview a number of books on developing RIAs with JavaFX, including:
OpenSolaris expert Brian Leonard explains how to get started with the OpenSolaris operating system.
NetBeans IDE 6.0 increases developer productivity with a smarter, faster editor, Ruby/JRuby/Ruby on Rails support, enhancements for improved Swing development, a new Visual Game Designer, updated Data Binding support, integrated Profiling and more.
Here are the May 6 technical sessions relating to JavaFX technology (check the online Content Catalog).
This tutorial uses DTrace, a powerful diagnostic tool introduced in the Solaris 10 OS, to analyze several applications and shows how its use can improve performance.
This overview of performance and scalability improvements in Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6) provides benchmark results that demonstrate the impact of these improvements.
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.
With this example program, learn how to use eight user interface (UI) components in JavaFX Script technology. (Part 2 of a series)
The Interrupt Resource Management (IRM) feature, which optimizes the use of interrupt vectors to improve IO performance, is available in OpenSolaris build 107 and is scheduled for the Solaris 10 10/09 OS for SPARC platforms.
This article shows you two ways to create applications that are extensible, allowing you to add functionality and enhancements to an
application without making changes to its original code base.
Learn how to patch the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) using Sun Ops Center.
This update introduces new Java Plug-In, Java Kernel, Java Deployment Toolkit, new Java system properties, Java Quick Starter, hardware acceleration support, and Nimbus to provide an optimized consumer-end user experience.
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.
Learn how to set up a logging handler and configure the server.
At the last JavaPolis, JavaFX Script expert Jim Weaver gave an hourlong introduction to JavaFX Script presentation, which is now available online.
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.
Part 3 of the Learning Curve Journals describes the differences between functions and operations in JavaFX Script.
The distribution bundle includes several demos rewritten in compiled JavaFX Script and that run using Java WebStart. Draft javadoc-like documentation of the JavaFX UI Runtime API is available, as is javadoc for the
javafxc Compiler API.
This Sun BluePrints article shows how to scale a medium-sized Web 2.0 site with a million registered users with open-source technologies, and includes detailed configuration and tuning information for the deployment. (Login or registration required.)
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