Examples

Screencasts

First, check out the Screencasts for brief tours of the toolkit in action.

HelloWorld

The most basic of all hands-on examples, Hello World.

Pre-installed, Universal Image

Basic Pre-installed Universal Image - A small (212KB) download of a pre-installed pkg(5)-based image containing the pkg(5) Java bootstrap and build tools. The associated pkg(5) repository contains the platform-specific pkg(5) packages as well as packages for the Update Tool multi-platform package management tool. This example includes the latest promoted build of the pkg(5) multi-OS platform tools.

Real Products

The following download bundles demonstrate:

  • Use of pre-installed user images
  • Use of pkg(5) Java Bootstrap feature to dynamically install native toolkit components during initial installation
  • Use of optional initial install applications
Product Download Description
GlassFish v3 Developer Builds See latest-... files. Promoted builds of the upcoming v3 product quality release.
GlassFish v3 Preview A preview release of the upcoming Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 release.
Java EE SDK 6 Preview A preview release of the Java EE 6 SDK
GlassFish Web Space Server Sun's portal offering based on the popular Liferay portal.
GlassFish Web Stack Sun's AMP stack for Linux and Solaris
Message Queue The 4.4 version of Sun's message queuing product uses pkg(5)

Package Maintainer and Bundle Assembler Examples

Example Description
Creating Custom GlassFish v3 Distribution and Bundles Alexis' series of blogs on using pkg(5) to customize installations of GlassFish and to produce new install bundles.
Using pkg(5) with the OpenDS Build Environment, An Experiment An experimental integration of pkg(5) with OpenDS. Provides both an end user-oriented download and instructions for augmenting the OpenDS Ant build.xml with pkg(5)-based package publishing and assembly of a pre-installed image.















Confluence User's Guide
Plugins Available

Enter labels to add to this page:
Please wait 
Looking for a label? Just start typing.

Children (2)

  Hide Children  |  View in Hierarchy
Example Basic Pre-installed Universal Image
Screencasts

Sign up or Log in to add a comment or watch this page.


The individuals who post here are part of the extended Sun Microsystems community and they might not be employed or in any way formally affiliated with Sun Microsystems. The opinions expressed here are their own, are not necessarily reviewed in advance by anyone but the individual authors, and neither Sun nor any other party necessarily agrees with them.

© 2010, Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates
Powered by Atlassian Confluence Oracle Social Media Participation Policy Privacy Policy Terms of Use Trademarks Site Map Employment Investor Relations Contact