Projects
Sun contributes to many Free and Open Source projects, covering a wide variety of technologies. Here are just some of them.
GlassFish
GlassFish is a free, open source application server that implements the next version of the J2EE platform. Sun contributed the application server code base and continues to employ many engineers to work on the J2EE. Java EE 5 delivers ease of development features that make developers more efficient.
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Grid Engine
The Grid Engine project is an open source community effort to facilitate the adoption of distributed computing solutions. Sun opened half a million lines of code and continues to employ a team of developers on Grid Engine.
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JavaDB
Java DB is Sun's supported distribution of the open source Apache Derby 100% Java technology database.
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java.net
Java.net was formed by a diverse group of Sun engineers, researchers, technologists, and evangelists to provide a common site for Java technology conversations and development projects.
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Mobile & Embedded
The Mobile & Embedded community site establishes a central location for the collaborative development of open source Java ME technologies and applications. Deployed in over 1.5 billion mobile and embedded devices, Java ME represents the ideal development platform for the creation and deployment of mobile data services. By open sourcing implementations of Java ME, Sun will enable the community to accelerate platform innovation, reduce development costs through the Java ME ecosystem, and, ultimately, drive a more consistent application platform.
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MySQL
MySQL database is the world's most popular open source database because of its fast performance, high reliability, ease of use, and dramatic cost savings.
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NetBeans
NetBeans is a free and open source Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It's also an extensible platform which you can use to build OS-independent applications. Sun open sourced NetBeans in 2000. The NetBeans community now consists of hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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OpenDS
OpenDS is an open source community project building a free and comprehensive next generation directory service. OpenDS is designed to address large deployments, to provide high performance, to be highly extensible, and to be easy to deploy, manage and monitor. Initial development of OpenDS was done by Sun Microsystems, but is now available under an open source license.
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Open ESB
Open ESB is an open-source project and community building the first fully open-source Enterprise Service Bus implementation based on the Java Business Integration specification and reference implementation. A rich set of components that plug into the platform are also being built including BPEL, XSLT, Event Processing, and Data Integration Service Engines, and HTTP, JDBC, FTP, SMTP, RSS, XMPP, and CORBA Binding Components. Open ESB is contributed to by Sun and community members and leverages the GlassFish and NetBeans community as well.
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OpenJDK
As the heart of the Java platform, Java SE is the execution engine and core development technology that enables the Java technology's "write once, run anywhere" promise. By open sourcing the Java Development Kit (JDK), Sun's implementation of Java SE, Sun hopes to make the Java platform a new foundation of innovation and enhance its value as the ubiquitous, essential infrastructure of the Internet experience.
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OpenCDS
OpenCDS is based on the source code of the Sun Java System Content Delivery Server (CDS), released by Sun under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). The project is creating a mobile content delivery and management platform that enables mobile operators to launch and sustain content services.
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Open HA Cluster
Open HA (High Availability) Cluster is the open-source code base of Solaris Cluster, a high availability clustering solution. Open HA Cluster includes over 2 million lines of code, integration with many key applications, globalization functionality, an automated test environment and documentation.
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OpenOffice.org
The OpenOffice.org project was founded when Sun contributed several million lines of source code in 2000. Sun Microsystems remains still the main contributor of code.
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OpenSPARC
The OpenSPARC project is making the hardware source code of the recently announced UltraSPARC T1 processor available under an Open Source license.
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OpenSSO
OpenSSO is an open source access management software distribution that provides the means to build authentication, authorization, and session management for Java and web applications and services. OpenSSO is maintained by a community of developers working closely with Sun engineers to promote the evaluation, use, and innovation of identity and access management technology.
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OpenSolaris
Sun open sourced over 10 million lines of code in 2005 with the OpenSolaris project. Sun continues to sponsor the project by employing hundreds of software engineers who work on OpenSolaris, and by hosting the community site.
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OpenxVM
OpenxVM is a community hub for a number of related open source projects that related to xVM, the intersection of virtualization and management. OpenxVM projects are together creating the next generation of data center infrastructure.
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OpenPortal
The Portal Project aims to build an Enterprise-class implementation of a Portal Server in the open source community. It is comprised of many sub-projects including the Portlet Repository, the Portlet Container, WSRP, JSFPortletBridge, NetBeans PortalPack and others. The project aims to produce lightweight, modular, consumable components that can be used by many environments, including Portal Servers, Tools, SOA/BI runtimes, and more. The Project was derived from Sun Microsystems' Sun Java System Portal Server 7 product and is available under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL).
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PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an high-performance object-relational database system, based on 20 years of development and sustained by a worldwide community of developers and companies. Sun sponsors PostgreSQL developers and provides test equipment for the project. Solaris users adopt PostgreSQL as an alternative to proprietary databases capable of high-volume OLTP workloads.
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VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a family of open source, powerful, feature rich x86 virtualization products for server, desktop and embedded us.
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