Sun Microsystems reiterated its support of application
development for Linux through a commitment to tools and a new
online community at LinuxWorld yesterday.
"Our entire line of development tools, both our Java development
tools as well as C, C++, and Fortran tools, will be made available
on Linux by the end of this calendar year," said Sanjay Sarathy,
director for developer programs.
Tools included in this effort are Sun Studio, Sun Java Studio
Enterprise, and the upcoming Sun Java Studio Creator, which the
company has been portraying as its easy-to-use tool for Java
development.
Sun Studio is slated to offer GUI-based debugging that will
provide for multi-threaded, multi-process debugging; performance
analysis and the Native Connector Tool, for binding and
encapsulating native Linux C/C++ applications and libraries as Java
classes.
A portal extension to the java.net site for developers will
focus on Linux. It can be found at linux.java.net and includes
software tools and project infrastructure to support collaborative
development projects. Communication channels such as Weblogs,
"wikis," and other interactive forums will also feature.
"This is the site where Java developers can go and collaborate
and innovate with one another and where code and projects can be
built from scratch," Sarathy said.
As part of the Linux effort, Art Gould, an official in the Sun
developer programs, will serve as the community manager to shepherd
projects on the site.
Sun co-sponsors java.net site with O'Reilly & Associates and
CollabNet.
Paul Krill writes for InfoWorld