Links

OPENSOLARIS

OpenSolaris 2008.05 Home Page - http://www.opensolaris.com

BIGADMIN ( Ocean of information for system administration resources) - http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/home/index.html

Starter Kit ( Useful material for people new to OpenSolaris ) - http://opensolaris.org/os/project/starterkit/

OpenSolaris Community Documentation - http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/

Opensolaris Curriculum ( Study Operating Systems Internals the Opensolaris Way ) http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/edu/curriculum_development/

Free Resources that can be used to teach the Operating Systems Course in Colleges ( Really cool ) - Introduction to Operating Systems Booklet - http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/edu/nocost_resources/

Project Indiana( OpenSolaris 2008.05 ) - http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/getit/

Opensolaris Feeds - http://planet.opensolaris.org OpenSolaris Presentations from all over the world - http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/os-presentations/

Basics - http://www.sun.com/solaris/teachme/

Installing Apache2, MySQL 5 and PHP Server with OpenSolaris 2008.05 Package Manager, configuring them to work together and integrating Apache and MySQL with SMF. A "Self Healing SAMP" - http://blogs.sun.com/jonasdias/entry/self_healing_samp_with_opensolaris

Learn about Indiana ( openSolaris 2008.05 ) http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/
OpenSolaris Course for Students - http://www.sunstudentcourses.com/
OpenSolaris How - To Guides - http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/howto_guides.jsp
Open Solaris Learning Centres - http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/learning_centers.jsp
OpenSolaris Reference Resources -

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/reference_resources.jsp
OpenSolaris Communities - http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/#all
Sun Documentation - http://docs.sun.com/app/docs( search for Zfs, Dtrace, Zones etc )

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris Introduction Faq - http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Open_Solaris_New_User_FAQ

OpenSolaris Parted to manage partitions- http://code.google.com/p/solaris-parted/downloads/list

Format Utility - http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/format_utility.jsp

ZFS

ZFS Administration Guide - http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461

ZFS Imp Links - http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/links/

ZFS - The Last Word In File Systems ( Presentation ) -

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfs_last.pdf

ZFS Tutorial http://flux.org.uk/howto/solaris/zfs_tutorial_01

ZFS Demo Video - http://www.infoworld.com/archives/videoTemplate.jsp?Id=1152&type=Screencasts&tag=Storage

OPENSTORAGE

OpenSolaris Storage Community: http://opensolaris.org/os/storage
Open Storage Sun.com website: www.sun.com/openstorage
Join the Open Storage Facebook community at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12774638036

CIFS

Common Internet File System in Solaris - http://blogs.sun.com/amw/entry/cifs_in_solaris

DTRACE

Dtrace Administration Guide - http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5488

Bryan Cantril's Blog on Dtrace with PHP - http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/dtrace_and_php_demonstrated

Bigadmin - http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/

Dtrace Community - http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/dtrace/

ZONES / CONTAINERS

Blueprint - http://www.sun.com/blueprints/1006/820-0001.pdf

Virtualisation Home Page - http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/virtualization.jsp

Xvm n Zones - http://blogs.sun.com/rvalls/entry/xvm_and_zones

VIRTUALBOX

Virtual Box - http://www.virtualbox.org

Hands On Lab - JavaPassion By Sang Shin - Guide to installing Vbox in OpenSolaris
http://www.javapassion.com/handsonlabs/opensolarisvirtual/

Blog Entries -

http://blogs.sun.com/saloni/entry/running_virtualbox
http://blogs.sun.com/saloni/entry/running_opensolaris_2008_05_inside

OPENOFFICE

For Developers - http://development.openoffice.org/

Benefits : http://why.openoffice.org

Marketing Resources - http://marketing.openoffice.org/

OOo's extensions repository, where you can find the Sun Professional Template Pack - http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/most_pop_ext
There is the OpenOffice.org repository of templates - http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates/index.html

JAVA

Java Starts here - http://java.sun.com

The blog for people passionate about java - http://www.javapassion.com

Performance, Debugging, Testing, Code analysis, Profiling, Management and Monitoring of Java applications - http://www.javapassion.com/javaperformance/

Java One Conference - http://java.sun.com/javaone

Text to speech converters which can be used with Java - http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t102093.html
http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php

Duke's choice Awards ( Do participate ) - http://java.com/en/dukeszone/dukeschoice.jsp

Visual VM - https://visualvm.dev.java.net

JXTA Project - https://jxta.dev.java.net/

Java Docs - http://doc.java.sun.com

http://doc.java.sun.com/DocWeb/

NETBEANS

Educational Resources - http://wiki.netbeans.org/EduResources

The Netbeans Blog - Geertjan - http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan

Netbeans Resources at JavaPassion - http://www.javapassion.com/netbeans/masterindex.html

Compiling Netbeans Source - http://wiki.netbeans.info/wiki/view/HowToDownloadCompileNetBeans

Netbeans in Education - http://edu.netbeans.org

Flickr demo http://wiki.netbeans.org/NBDemoFlickr

Netbeans TV - Podcasts - http://www.netbeans.tv

Wink Demo - http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/CreateWinkDemo.html

Netbeans Related Blogs - planetnetbeans.org

The NetBeans weekly newsletter published in Brazilian Portuguese.
http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2008-03-06_pt_BR.html

Netbeans and mobileGaming - http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/CreatingJavaMEGamesWithGameBuilder

Netbeans Logos - http://www.netbeans.org/community/teams/evangelism/collateral.html

Angad's Netbeans 6.1 Sides - http://www.slideshare.net/angadsingh/netbeans-61-talk/

Struts in Netbeans - http://www.netbeans.org/kb/61/web/quickstart-webapps-struts.html

NetBeans Profiler - http://www.netbeans.org/kb/55/profiler-tutorial.html

Netbeans Spring Support - https://nbspring.dev.java.net/

Netbeans 6 core features - http://java.sys-con.com/read/452294_1.htm

Netbeans VS Eclipse

http://www.ciol.com/content/20907100124.aspx

http://cld.blog-city.com/why_eclipse_developers_are_moving_to_netbeans.htm

http://blogs.sun.com/TechDaysEvents/entry/jeet_kaul_on_netbeans_vs *Java Beans Binding:*Tutorial - http://scc-ub.googlecode.com/files/tutorial.photomanager.pdf.zip

Example code - http://scc-ub.googlecode.com/files/PhotoManager.zip

Quick Binding Tutorial on netbeans.org -
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/60/java/gui-binding.html
Shannon's project on java.net - https://beansbinding.dev.java.net/
Patrick's blog - http://weblogs.java.net/blog/pkeegan/archive/2007/10/index.html

Beans Binding Home Page - https://beansbinding.dev.java.net/

Java Beans - http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/javabeans/index.html

GLASSFISH

GLASSFISH Blog - http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium

Overview - https://glassfish.dev.java.net/faq/v2/GlassFishOverview.pdf

Arun Gupta's Blog - http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/glassfish_day_india_tech_days

J2ee - http://www.javapassion.com/j2ee/

JSF -

https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/presentations/

http://www.javapassion.com/j2ee/#JavaServer_Faces_JSF_title

http://www.javapassion.com/handsonlabs/jsfwoodstock/
http://www.javapassion.com/j2ee/#JSF  - Chapter 7
http://www.jamesholmes.com/JavaServerFaces/

Combining JavaServer Faces Technology, Spring, and the Java Persistence API - http://java.sun.com/mailers/techtips/enterprise/2007/TechTips_Aug07.html

Sample Application using JSF, Spring 2.0, and Java Persistence APIs on Glassfish - http://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/archive/2007/06/sample_applicat.html

Sample Application using JAX-WS, JSF, Spring, and Java -http://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/archive/2007/09/sample_applicat_3.html

SUNSPOT

Home Page - http://www.sunspotworld.com

Sun Spot Forums - https://www.sunspotworld.com/forums/

Info About SUN Spot from Interview with one of the Creators at SUN Labs ( Arshan Pouroshi ) - http://campustechnology.com/articles/58396/

SUN SPOT Open Grant Program - http://sunspotworld.com/proposals/

For SPOT Demos - http://spots.dev.java.net

Documentation - http://www.sunspotworld.com/docs/

Videos and pictures - http://www.sunspotworld.com/docs/media/index.php. ( Tag your YouTube Videos and Flickr photos with the tag "spaughts" to make them easy to find)

Video of the team's presentation at the Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days a few weeks ago - http://ustream.tv/recorded/VhYsggMBMyYB89bBKe6jGGZXXc6t6MdC.

Sun SPOTs as part of their curriculum https://spots-curriculum.dev.java.net/

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_SPOT

Ananth's Blog http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/sunspot-rules/
Simon Ritter's presentation - pt.sun.com/sunnews/events/2007/java_pt/pdf/Sun_SPOTS_SRitter.pdf
Accelerometer Notes - http://www.sunspotworld.com/docs/AppNotes/AccelerometerAppNote.pdf

3D Game Using SunSpot - http://pauldeng.blogspot.com/2007/07/sun-spot-mouse-system-v10.html

Sample SUN SPOT Project - http://sunkth.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/sun-spot-presentation-at-kth/

Good Link for Faculty and students - https://www.sunspotworld.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2341&sid=cd22aebdb8d4e31b7658a3bf1253036e.

Must have gadget for geek - http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/23/47FE-must-have-gadgets_2.html

Interesting projects using SUNSPOT -

https://www.sunspotworld.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=19&sid=6de3e9b688e793e9d06aeecbaff74d0e

Building Robots / Cars Using SUN SPOT

Sun SPOT CAR Project by Anil Gulecha ( CA Tech Lead ) - http://blogs.sun.com/anilg/entry/building_your_sun_spot_controlled

Sun Spot Car - How to - http://blogs.sun.com/davidgs/entry/the_spots_are_driving

ROBOT using SUNSPOT Created by Tech Lead Angad Singh - http://robocontrol.dev.java.net

http://blogs.sun.com/angad/entry/robocontrol_a_network_controlled_robot

Connecting SPOT to external Circuit - https://www.sunspotworld.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=490

Some Robotics Resources :
http://jiityouthclub.org/robotics/A Tutorial on Robotics Part 0.pdf
http://jiityouthclub.org/robotics/A Tutorial on Robotics Part 1.pdf
http://jiityouthclub.org/robotics/A Tutorial on Robotics Part 2.pdf
http://jiityouthclub.org/robotics/A Tutorial on Robotics Part 3.pdf
http://jiityouthclub.org/robotics/A Tutorial on Robotics Part 4.pdf
http://jiityouthclub.org/robotics/A Tutorial on Robotics Part 5.pdf
http://jiityouthclub.org/robotics/A Tutorial on Robotics Part 6.pdf *Blogs:*Blog SPOT Blog - http://blogs.sun.com/davidgs

http://blogs.sun.com/mart/

http://blogs.sun.com/larsh/

Roger Meike - http://blogs.sun.com/roger

OPENSPARCOpenSparc - http://www.opensparc.net

FAQ- http://www.opensparc.net/faqs/opensparc-t2/
OpenSPARC T2 Specifications released - http://www.opensparc.net/opensparc-t2/index.html

RUBY / RUBY ON RAILS / GROOVY / JRUBY using Netbeans Presentation on JRuby on Rails + Swing + Hibernate -
http://blogs.sun.com/teera/entry/jruby_presentation_vancouver_ruby_user
Sang Shin - java passion - http://www.javapassion.com/rubyonrails

Rails web development with Google Maps and NetBeans -

http://blogs.sun.com/Chinese_Functional_CA/entry/google_maps_on_rails_with

Ruby on rails using Netbeans - http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetBeansWorldTour2008#section-NetBeansWorldTour2008-Session3IntroductionToJRubyOnRails
http://www.gaoang.com/files/JRuby_on_Rails.ppt

http://www.infoq.com/ruby/

JRuby and Swing - http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/SwingJRuby

SECOND LIFE / WONDERLAND / Project Darkstar ( Gaming )

Project Wonderland ( 3D Virtual World ) - http://lg3d-wonderland.dev.java.net

Virtual Reality - http://www.secondlife.com

Second Life Blog - http://blogs.sun.com/vw

Project Darkstar Slides - http://mediacast.sun.com/share/ChrisM/VTech_Presentation.pdf

Project darkstar Home Page - http://www.projectdarkstar.com

Chief Gaming Officer's Blog - http://blogs.sun.com/ChrisM

JAVAFX

Java FX Demos Contributed By a CA - http://jfx.wikia.com/wiki/Demos

JavaFX Developer Central - http://openjfx.dev.java.net/

Draggable JavaFX Applets hands-on lab by Sang Shin -

http://www.javapassion.com/handsonlabs/javafxdraggableapplets/index.html

http://www.javapassion.com/handsonlabs/4611_javafxdraggableapplets.zip

Java for Mobile ( J2ME ) / Mobile GAMINGThe mobile game builder in Java ME - Links

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/samples/mobile-game-builder.html
http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/track3.jsp
http://wiki.netbeans.org/CreatingJavaMEGamesWithGameBuilder
http://blogs.sun.com/JavaFundamentals/entry/creating_games_for_mobility_in

Tribal Trouble, a fairly good game written in Java - http://www.garagegames.com/products/77/
Jake2, a Quake 2 clone in Java - http://bytonic.de/html/jake2.html

Java Micro Edition. -http://community.java.net/mobileandembedded/
Open source reference implementation - https://phoneme.dev.java.net/

SUN STUDIO / MULTITHREADING / COMPILER / MPI / INTEL TBB

Home - http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio

GCCFSS- http://cooltools.sunsource.net/gcc/

TBB - http://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/solaris.php

Open MP - http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/studio_openmp.html
Debugging Open MP - http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5257/blakm?a=view

SUN HPC Cluster Tools - http://blogs.sun.com/tatkar/entry/sun_hpc_clustertools_8_0

SDN ( Sun developer Network )

Sun Developer Network - http://developers.sun.com

Sun Developer Network for Students - http://developers.sun.com/students

Sun developer Network China Portal - http://developers.sun.com.cn

SUN Developer Network News - http://blogs.sun.com/SDNProgramNews

Community One - http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/index.jsp

JavaOne Homepage: http://java.sun.com/javaone

Sun Tech days - http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/presentations/2007-2008.jsp

COOL CA BLOGS

Chinese Functional CA - http://blogs.sun.com/Chinese_Functional_CA

Rafael vanoni - http://blogs.sun.com/rv/

Ezequiel's Blog - http://blogs.sun.com/Argentina_ambassador

Ajay Kumar's Blog - http://blogs.sun.com/ajaykumar/

Jonas Dias Blog - http://blogs.sun.com/jonasdias

UPM Campus Ambassador - Madrid - Spain.- http://blogs.sun.com/upm

Abhishek Kumar ( Gloss - Shastra ) - http://blogs.sun.com/krabhishek/

Narendra pant - http://blogs.sun.com/npant

Denghui - http://blogs.sun.com/Denghui/

Zhiqi tao - http://blogs.sun.com/tao

Teera - http://blogs.sun.com/teera

Sidsel - http://blogs.sun.com/cphcampus

Souvik Das gupta - http://blogs.sun.com/souvik

Kurchi - http://blogs.sun.com/kurchi

Francois - http://blogs.sun.com/francois/

Felipe cerda - http://blogs.sun.com/concepcion

Ramprasad - http://blogs.sun.com/ramprasad

Silveira Neto - http://silveiraneto.net

Miroslav - http://blogs.sun.com/kopeckym/

Roman Valls - http://blogs.sun.com/rvalls/

Kumar Bipallav - http://blogs.sun.com/bipallav

Neng Giin - http://blogs.sun.com/nenggiin/

COOL NON CA BLOGS

Jim Grisanzio 's Blog ( The SUN blog that gets the highest number of hits - http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris

Moinak Ghosh - http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg

Ben Rockwood - http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/

James Gosling's blog: http://blogs.sun.com/jag/

Greg Papadopoulos' blog: http://blogs.sun.com/Gregp/

Amit Kumar Saha - http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha

Ganesh Hiregoudar - http://blogs.sun.com/ganesh)

Chief Open Source Officer - Simon Phipps - Simon Phipps http://blogs.sun.com/webmink

Chief Gaming Officer - http://blogs.sun.com/ChrisM/

STUDENT RELATED

All about CAs -

http://www.sun.com/ambassadors

http://developers.sun.com/students/campus_ambassadors.jsp

New student developer portal with information on the campus ambassador program, other jobs, Sun certification, and more! - http://developers.sun.com/students

Sun Campus Ambassador Map - http://developers.sun.com/students/community/map.jsp

Campus Ambassador blog aggregator- http://planets.sun.com/studentportal/

SUN CA blog listings - http://developers.sun.com/students/community/blogs.jsp

Sun Student Connection - http://blogs.sun.com/sunstudentconnection

SDN Program News - http://blogs.sun.com/SDNProgramNews/
Good Blog about happenings in sun - http://blogs.sun.com/theopenwaters/
Student Zone - http://blogs.sun.com/Studentzone/
JOBS@SUN http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/zone/
SDN Channel http://blogs.sun.com/sdnchannel

Sun Student courses - www.sunstudentcourses.com

Free Online Training for All - https://learningconnection.sun.com (Note: you must enable pop ups in your browser for this application.)

Sun student blog - http://blogs.sun.com/students

Webinars - http://www.sun.com/training/hot_topics.html

IndiaUniversity Relations & Campus Ambassador Portal - http://in.sun.com/univ

http://blogs.sun.com/WWERC08/

SUN ACADEMIC INITIATIVE ( SAI ) -

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/programs/sai/institutions.jsp

http://developers.sun.com/learning/academic/
http://www.sun.com/solutions/landing/industry/education/sai/index.xml

http://www.sun.com/solutions/landing/industry/education/students.xml
http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2007-1023/feature/index.jsp?intcmp=hp2007oct23_edu_read

http://www.sun.com/solutions/landing/industry/education/sai/index.xml 

http://www.sun.com/secure/products-n-solutions/edu/programs/sai/sai.jsp

*GLASSFISH*http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium

http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium

http://planets.sun.com/glassfish/

EDUCATION RELATED NON SUN LINKS

Useful links:
http://www.edubuntu.org/UsingEdubuntu
http://www.ossrc.org.in/foss-and-education.html
http://osef.org/
http://www.schoolforge.net/
http://edge-op.org/grouch/schools.html
http://eduforge.org/
http://www.schooltool.org/

MYSQL

MYSQL For Developers / Beginners - http://dev.mysql.com/usingmysql/

MYSQLUniversity ( Live classes ) - http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_University

Xml support in MySQL - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/xml-functions.html

CERTIFICATION LINKS Practice Tests - www.javablackbelt.com

SCJP Book - The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide, Roberts, Heller, Ernest
Head First Java - Kathy Sierra
SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Study Guide by Kathy Sierra
A Programmer's guide to JAVA certification": by Khalid A. Mughal

USER GROUPS

Opensolaris User Group - http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/usergroups/
Java User Group - http://www.java.net/request_project.html

SUN RAY

Manual of Installation Sun Ray Server Software (SRSS): http://www.sun-rays.org/srss.html
Specifications Sun Ray Virtual Display Clients: http://www.sun-rays.org/clients.html
Sun Ray User Group Wiki: http://wiki.sun-rays.org/index.php/Sun_Ray_Community
Sun Ray Users Group (Mailing list, FAQ, etc): http://www.sun-rays.org/
Planet SunRay Users ( is an aggregation of weblogs written about Sun Ray): http://planet.sun-rays.org/

MISCELLANEOUS

Sun Microsystems Cool Videos in Youtube - http://youtube.com/user/SunMicrosystemsInc

Videos on sun technology

Sun Media Centre - http://sunfeedroom.sun.com  - Search for Java, Solaris etc

http://silveiraneto.net/2007/09/25/here-comes-the-sun

http://www.youtube.com/user/SunMicrosystemsInc

Netbeans Vidoes - http://www.youtube.com/user/barkodar

http://www.sun.com/training/catalog/courses/WS-245.xml