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In this three-part series, the articles describe new features available in the Java Portlet Specification 2.0 (JSR 286) and extensions supported by OpenPortal Portlet Container 2.x....

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The Java EE 5 SDK bundles with Java SE (JDK) 6 have been enhanced with JDK 6 Update 18. Download the latest versions....

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Learn how to use the Loadbalancer Configurator to install and configure the Loadbalancer plugin, which provides loadbalancing functionality to GlassFish. (Login or registration required.)...

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GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a lightweight and agile integration product suite for services-based and composite application development. This white paper details a reference architecture for a very typical deployment solution based on a real-world scenario. (Login or registration required.)...

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This new book provides step-by-step guidance on how to architect enterprise solutions and implement them using SOA and Java EE technologies....

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Join Sun Technology Evangelist Arun Gupta as he discusses and demonstrates what's new and cool in Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3....

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This Tech Tip covers a new datasource definition resource introduced in Java EE 6 that you can declare portably for database connectivity across any Java EE 6-compatible application server....

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Due to the overwehelming success of the December 15, 2009 event, every session of the Virtual Conference is now available to view as a replay. Learn more about Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3 now!...

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The Java EE 6 platform is now available with significant industry support from Java technology licensees. Also available is the Java EE 6 SDK, which includes Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3, the industry's first application server to support the full Java EE 6 platform and Java EE 6 Web Profile....

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NetBeans IDE 6.8 and the GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse 1.2 Release Candidate add support for Java EE 6, enhancing Java EE 6 productivity with rapid iterative development using GlassFish v3....

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Attend the Virtual Conference on December 15, 2009 and get an exclusive look into the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) and Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3, the first Java EE 6 platform-compatible application server....

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Learn about the significant new technologies, usability improvements, and other compelling enhancements in Java EE 6....

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This Tech Tip introduces the asynchronous support that has been added to the Servlet API in Java Servlet 3.0 technology. It also includes a sample application that demonstrates those features....

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The first IDE to offer support for the entire Java EE 6 spec! Highlights include improved support for PHP, Project Kenai, Maven, C/C++ and more. Download now....

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This latest free-for-use, production-ready SDK has been updated with Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1. The SDK bundles with Java SE (JDK) 6 have been enhanced with JDK 6 Update 17. Read the overview and download the SDKs now. Multilingual support is available....

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Use the Firefox web browser to explore an OpenSSO identity provider initiated fedlet deployment....

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This Tech Tip shows you how to implement the POST-REDIRECT-GET (PRG) pattern in JavaServer Faces 2.0 technology....

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Use the Firefox web browser to explore an OpenSSO service provider initiated fedlet deployment....

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This guide is an introduction to tuning different components of the Sun GlassFish Web Stack, with a focus on Apache, MySQL, and PHP. (Login or registration required.)...

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This Tech Tip illustrates the use of three powerful technologies in the Java EE 6 platform: Contexts and Dependency Injection, Dependency Injection For Java, and JavaServer Faces 2.0....

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This paper summarizes the benefits of GlassFish for small businesses with an overview of the product's core features and a look at the experiences of three young companies: Webzzle, TravelMuse, and Clarity Accounting. (Login or registration required.)...

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This paper summarizes the features and capabilities that make GlassFish advantageous for building, deploying, and managing enterprise-class Java applications and web services. (Login or registration required.)...

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This article explains how to simultaneously control access to in-house applications and those hosted by the SaaS provider Salesforce by using OpenSSO. (Login or registration required.)...

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The first IDE to offer support for the entire Java EE 6 spec! Highlights include improved support for PHP, Project Kenai, Maven, C/C++, and more....

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This paper describes how to take advantage of the Sun Glassfish Portfolio in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) public cloud environment using Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server. (Login or registration required.)...

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Check out Sun Microsystems' Java sessions and demos at Oracle OpenWorld and Oracle Develop....

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Here is an example of using jstack and tuning web applications to prevent performance bottlenecks on chip multithreading (CMT) platforms....

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This document provides a brief technical overview, as well as the steps to install and configure Sun GlassFish Web Space Server for simplifying the development of web content and collaboration. (Login or registration required.)...

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Learn how to write a web service with JAX-WS, secure it with OpenSSO WSS Agent, and deploy it on Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, GlassFish, and WebSphere....

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This Tech Tip highlights the new locking and concurrency features in JPA 2.0 and provides an application that demonstrates these capabilities....

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In this three-part article series, detailed use cases show how OpenSSO server and policy agents can improve a user's experience with access control....

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The Java EE 5 Tools Bundle has been updated with NetBeans IDE 6.7.1 and NetBeans Portal Pack 3.0.2. Download now....

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Learn how access control rules defined in OpenSSO can be enforced at runtime by SecureSpan XML Gateway through its native OpenSSO integration agent....

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Learn how to use the open-source protocol OpenAuth and OpenSSO extensions to secure a RESTful web service....

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This webinar on Wednesday, August 26, at 10:00 a.m. PDT will cover Java EE evolution, Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3 features, and get you started with Java EE 6. Sign up today!...

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Join this free webinar replay led by Jeff Trawick that features a demo of the new Enterprise Manager in GlassFish Web Stack. (Login or registration required.)...

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Ruby on Rails improves developer productivity by speeding up development of database-backed web applications. This document gets you started with JRuby applications on GlassFish. (Registration or login required.)...

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This tutorial explores the Intelligent Event Processor (IEP) service engine, a component in GlassFish ESB 2.1 that provides powerful support for event-driven architecture (EDA). (Login or registration required.)...

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This tutorial provides a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to the OpenESB technology that is making its way into Sun commercial products--GlassFish ESB and Java CAPS 6. (Login or registration required.)...

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Sun's Richard Maldonado gives an overview of Sun GlassFish Web Space Server, a complete user interaction platform available with the GlassFish Portfolio that delivers both a traditional portal platform and a web content management platform. (Login or registration required.)...

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Ed Ort sits down with Mark Matthews, architect for MySQL Developer Tools at Sun Microsystems, to discuss some of the more powerful configuration options in the popular open-source database....

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See this overview of how to use the Sun GlassFish Mobility Platform to develop a simple application synchronizing photos taken with a mobile phone directly with the cloud. (Login or registration required.)...

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This Tech Tip introduces a few of the exciting new features in Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology 3.1....

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This one-hour webinar covers all of the new features in JSF 2.0, from big ticket items such as Ajax and bookmarkability, to small features like new methods on ExternalContext, and everything in between. (Registration or login required.)...

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NetBeans IDE 6.7 introduces integration with Project Kenai, and includes native Maven support, enhancements for Java, PHP, Groovy, C/C++, and more. Download today!...

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Sun GlassFish ESB has been designed to catalyze a lightweight business integration deployment project. It offers a "fit-to-purpose" mix of features, functionality, extensibility, and support. Learn more in this white paper....

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This Tech Tip describes the contents and operation of a common ant build file that simplifies the task of building and testing Metro-based services....

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JAX-RS makes it easy to develop RESTful web services using Java technology. This 2009 JavaOne Conference session showed why....

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Learn how GlassFish v3 has been designed to support dynamic languages like Ruby, Python, and Groovy on the JVM....

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GlassFish v3, the Java EE 6 compatible application server, is entirely modular. Have a look at the new OSGi-based architecture and new features....

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David Douglas, Lew Tucker, and John Fowler discussed what makes cloud computing and the new release of the OpenSolaris OS so appealing....

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NetBeans 6.7 Release Candidate introduces integration with Project Kenai, and includes native Maven support, enhancements for Java, PHP, Groovy, C/C++, and more....

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Smaller, simpler, lighter. Try Enterprise JavaBeans Lite and the new and easy APIs for developing RESTful Web services. Download Java EE 6 SDK Preview and Java EE 6 Web Profile SDK Preview....

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The Jersey Client API is a high-level, Java technology-based API for interoperating with RESTful Web services. This paper describes the client API and shows how to to concisely and efficiently implement a reusable client-side solution and talk to RESTful services. (Login or registration required.)...

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Find out how the open-source Sun GlassFish Portfolio provides the foundation for a high-performance, next-generation Web infrastructure. (Login or registration required.)...

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Sun Product Architect James Falkner discusses and demonstrates Sun's next-generation portal platform....

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Scalability and fault tolerance are fundamental requirements of an effectively deployed enterprise application. This paper describes how you can achieve scalability and fault tolerance with GlassFish Load Balancer. (Login or registration required.)...

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NetBeans IDE 6.7 Beta introduces integration with Project Kenai, and includes native Maven support, enhancements for Java, PHP, Groovy, C/C++, and more. Download now....

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Explore the complex interaction between OpenSSO and the policy agent in a deployment designed for cross-domain single sign-on....

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This presentation walks you through the clustering technologies used by Message Queue to provide a scalable, high-availability messaging service. (Login or registration required.)...

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This tip shows you how to use Jersey's integrated support for Spring, a framework for building and running enterprise Java applications....

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The SDK bundles with Java SE (JDK) 6 have been enhanced with JDK 6 Update 13. The Java EE 5 Tools Bundle has been updated with NetBeans IDE 6.5.1 and NetBeans Portal Pack 3.0. Download now....

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Here's a short quiz that tests your knowledge of some topics covered in recent Tech Tips....

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Learn how to protect your Java EE applications with client certificates in OpenSSO....

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OpenSSO deployments can be complex and difficult to debug. In this two-part article, learn how to troubleshoot your OpenSSO deployments with Firefox add-ons. Part 1 describes configuration and setup; Part 2 takes you through a simple single sign-on and policy protection example....

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This bundle is an easy-to-install, out-of-the-box Java EE developer experience for GlassFish users who prefer the Eclipse IDE. Rapidly create Java EE applications with save-session-on-reload technology and GlassFish v3 Prelude. Includes GlassFish v2.1, GlassFish v3 Prelude, Eclipse 3.4, Eclipse WTP, Java SE 6, and Java DB....

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In this Tech Tip, you'll learn about converged enterprise applications and how the SIP Servlet API v1.1 specification simplifies the development of converged enterprise applications. You'll also find a sample converged enterprise application that demonstrates the concepts and techniques covered in this tip....

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Learn how to use the NetBeans IDE with GlassFish and MySQL to create a RESTful Web service. You'll also learn how to use the NetBeans IDE with JavaFX support to run a JavaFX client for the Web service....

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Use NetBeans IDE 6.5 and GlassFish v3 Prelude to create a Ruby-on-Rails Web application in OpenSolaris 2008.11 without typing a single line of code....

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This Tech Tip shows you how to use the Jersey 1.0.2 Client API to consume HTTP-based RESTful Web services. The Jersey 1.0.2 client API is an easy-to-use, high-level, Java technology API that can help you write clients for any HTTP-based RESTful Web service....

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This paper describes what identity management is, how to install and configure Sun Identity Manager using GlassFish and MySQL, and compares the TCO for this solution to other vendors' offerings. (Registration required.)...

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This latest free-for-use, production-ready SDK includes these updates: Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1, Portlet Container 2.1, and Web Services for Remote Portlets 2.0 Beta 2. The SDK bundles with Java SE (JDK) 6 have been enhanced with JDK 6 Update 12. Read the overview and download the SDKs now. Multilingual...

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Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java technology. Register by April 22, 2009, and save $200 off a Conference Pass or Conference Plus Pass. Register now....

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Configure OpenSSO for virtual federation and for secure attributes exchange. Enjoy the benefits of a secure, loosely coupled, and centralized federation solution. Read on for details and an overview of the end-to-end virtual federation process. See also Part 1, which introduces virtual federation and its business advantages....

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In today's economy, IT departments must reduce cost and increase the flexibility of their IT infrastructure. Sun Microsystems addresses these seemingly conflicting requirements with a combination of open-source SOA leadership and the assurance of enterprise-class customer support. (Login or registration required.)...

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Learn how you can gain new skills, visibility, and job security by participating in open-source SOA community projects as companies are rapidly adopting open-source software to cut costs, increase flexibility, and prevent vendor lock-in....

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Sun GlassFish Portfolio is a feature-rich Web application development platform that offers developers support for emerging defacto and industry standards and simplified, rapid code development. Learn more about its features in this podcast with Sun's Paul Hinz and Tom Kincaid....

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Sun Microsystems' Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, GlassFish Evangelist, and Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart, Distinguished Engineer, discuss Project GlassFish, community adoption, and Sun's role in contributing to the GlassFish community....

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This video demonstrates key aspects of Sun GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), a lightweight and agile ESB platform that packages the innovation of Project OpenESB, the GlassFish application server, and the NetBeans IDE into a commercially supported, enterprise-class platform. For more on OpenESB with a focus on Java Business...

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What challenges are businesses facing in identity federation? How does OpenSSO's virtual federation capability tackle them so that your identity and federation infrastructure is simple, secure, and standardized? Read this article for the answers....

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The selection committee is now accepting nominations for the seventh edition of the popular Duke's Choice awards, which honor the best and most innovative uses of Java technology. Winners will be recognized at the 2009 JavaOne Conference. Submit your entries by March 27....

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OpenDS is Sun's open-source project for developing a next-generation directory service. In this article, QA lead Gary Williams elaborates on the project's testing aspect: opportunities, challenges, guidelines, practices, measurements....

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Over the years, the Enterprise Java Technologies Tech Tips have covered a wide variety of enterprise Java technology topics. Here's a crossword puzzle that tests your knowledge of some topics covered in recent Tech Tips....

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In this third article in a series of articles on GlassFish and MySQL, you'll learn how easy it is to convert the controller layer of the Web application discussed in Part 2 into a Web service....

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How to configure OpenSSO so that certain resources on your secured application are publicly accessible with no authentication required? Read this article for the procedure. Also included is an overview of the types of single sign-on....

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Learn how to implement federated SSO for Salesforce CRM software with an open-standards-based approach, featuring OpenSSO as the identity provider. That way, you preserve the confidentiality of user login credentials and eliminate the need for multiple logins....

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With PHP-based SugarCRM as an example, this article shows you how to enforce SSO in a PHP environment. The process integrates OpenSSO, Sun's open-source Web access management project, with an application in the LAMP [Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP] or SAMP [Solaris and AMP] stack. Here, simpleSAMLphp acts as the...

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In this Tech Tip, you'll learn several ways of customizing or extending the default behavior of JAXB....

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Writing security code and configuring the security model for Web applications can be cumbersome. The open-source project OpenSSO offers many security-related capabilities for applications: authentication, authorization, single sign on, identity services, security for Web services. This article describes how to easily protect Web applications with the OpenSSO Policy Agents in...

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Sun VP of Client Software Jeet Kaul presents this thoughts on OSGi and JSR 277, the Java Module System specification....

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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for the basic tasks involved with using JRuby on GlassFish. Learn how to install JRuby and how to create a simple application and deploy it to the GlassFish server. (Registration required.)...

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JRuby core developer Charlie Nutter gives his views on the first annual JVM Language Summit....

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This white paper presents flexible reference configurations that demonstrate how you can deploy business services to meet various availability requirements using GlassFish, Solaris 10 containers, and Sun Fire T2000 servers. (Registration required.)...

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Stand out from the crowd - show what you know. Submit your paper for the 2009 JavaOne Conference on these topics: Rich Media Applications and Interactive Content, Mobility, Services, and Core Technology. Deadline for submissions is December 19, 2008. The conference is June 2-5, 2009 in San Francisco, CA....

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Federating single sign-on with OpenSSO is fast, straightforward, and intuitive. This article describes the process for highly popular Google Apps....

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Learn how to use the NetBeans IDE with GlassFish and MySQL to build a create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) application....

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Here's a short quiz that tests your knowledge of some topics covered in recent Enterprise Java Technologies Tech Tips....

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This screencast shows you how to create a simple Web application using JavaServer Pages and servlets in Eclipse 3.4, debug it, and rapidly deploy it directly on GlassFish v3 Prelude. Watch other Java EE screencasts too....

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Development simplified with the NetBeans IDE 6.5! Rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications with Java, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy, and C/C++....

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Watch two new screencasts: Develop, Run, and Debug Rails Applications Using NetBeans IDE and GlassFish v3 Prelude and Create a Simple Web Application Using NetBeans IDE 6.5 and GlassFish v3 Prelude....

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