Ludovic Champenois's Blog: Web Stack in SXDE

Posted by ludo on February 05, 2008 at 07:42 AM | Comments (1)

Hi,

today, Sun is releasing a new version of Solaris Express developer Edition (SXDE) that you can download for free at http://developers.sun.com/sxde
The reason why this release is significant is that for the first time, a complete Web Stack is integrated and ready to use after the installation of the operating system (DVD or VMWare image) on your laptop of desktop.
This release includes the latest tools (NetBeans 6.0 and NetBeans PHP support, Sun Studio), and technologies (JDK 1.6, Apache 2.2, PHP 5.2.4, MySQL 5, PostgresQL 8, Ruby, GlassFish Java EE 5), to create applications for the Open Solaris OS, Java Application Platforms, and Web 2.0.

I've created a screencast that explains how to initialize the Web Stack for a Solaris Desktop user, how to start the Apache2 and MySQL servers, how to administer the stack, how to create and run a simple demo, how to use the NetBeans PHP IDE to create, deploy and debug PHP applications, all these steps done in a rushing 10 minutes. So fasten your seat belt.

ScreenCast available here.

Now if you do not have the time or the bandwith to watch the screen cast, you can view a few images taken from the screencast below:

Default Welcome page in Firefox (bundled) for SXDE 1/08:

Desktop Menu to Initialize the Web Stack:

Desktop Menus after the initialization of the Web Stack:

Web Stack Options UI console:

Registering a MySQL database connection in the NetBeans PHP IDE:

Running a PHP Project via the NetBeans PHP IDE

Debugging a PHP project int he NetBeans PHP IDE:

As you see, it is so simple that I was even able to create a debug a PHP application is less than 10 minutes. So give it a try, this is going to be a great year for Open Solaris and Web developers.
Install SXDE 01/08 (free at http://developers.sun.com/sxde) on your desktop or laptop, using VMWare (Mac, PC,...) or not, and give it a try,

Ludo

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More howtos on SXDE and PHP/Ruby/Postgres/MySQL posted at

http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetBeansAndSolarisHowTos

Ludo

Posted by: ludo on February 05, 2008 at 04:21 PM

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