Responding to requests and feedback from software
developers, Sun Microsystems has expanded its online developer
resources with a new Sun Developer Network that combines a number
of pre-existing resources into one portal.
The updated and expanded developer programme was unveiled at the
Web Services Edge Conference 2003 in Boston, as Sun outlined some
of its latest moves to encourage developers to create
applications.
Sun also announced today the availability of Sun ONE Web
Services Platform Developer Edition, a fully integrated platform
for Java-based Web services and application development; and a
proposal for a new Java Community Process (JCP) specification for
application development.
The Sun Developer Network will let Solaris, Java and Linux
developers find everything they need for development, deployment,
testing or marketing in one place, said Mike Bellissimo, Sun's
senior marketing director for Java Web services and tools. By doing
that, "rather than searching, they're developing," he said.
The portal can be used free of charge and later on will include
content from partners.
The Sun ONE Web Services Platform Developer Edition will contain
everything in one package for a developer to work on network-based
enterprise applications, according to the company. The product is
an integrated suite of development tools and development-ready
servers, including the integrated development environment, portal,
network identity, application and integration server
functionality.
In other news, Sun announced that it has submitted a proposal to
the JCP that would expand the way Java developers build integration
solutions, by providing a standardised container for business
integration components as part of the Java platform. Sun expects
that through the introduction of this integration architecture,
business integration will quickly converge with Web services, thus
helping to accelerate the adoption of Web services and reduce
integration costs and complexity.
Sun's Java Business Integration Specification was submitted to
the JCP for standardisation in late February and recently won
approval by the JCP executive committee. The Java business
integration architecture will be based on a loosely coupled
integration model that aligns with Web-services-style distributed
computing. It will use existing Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
integration components such as the Java Message Service, Java
Connector Architecture and the J2EE 1.4 Web services application
programming interfaces, as well as new capabilities.