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Sun is maintaining a list of Solaris Ready applications and solutions on sun.com -- did you know there are over 4,300 applications that run on Solaris 10?

Solaris Ready applications (SPARC) : 3681 Apps
Solaris Ready applications (x86) : 2302 Apps

Download times can be a pain... But Yours Faithfully has located a very cool freebie for you all today... For a limited time, Sun is offering a free DVD software kit which includes the following:

• Solaris 10 Operating System
  • SPARC and x86 Platforms
• Developer Tools
  • Sun Studio 11
  • Java Studio Creator 2 Update 1
  • Java Studio Enterprise 8
  • NetBeans 5.0

So have a look, fill in the form and enjoy these great products:
http://www2.sun.de/dc/forms/reg_us_2211_391.jsp

Dr. Root

Don't forget to email your questions to askdrroot@hos.horizon.ie

If anyone is looking for information on how to implement AJAX functionality in legacy Web applications, have a look at the recently published articles on the subject on java.sun.com:

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/hands-on/

The tutorials are the first in the series and I must say they're well written and include screenshots.

Definitely worth a look.

Got a programming question?

Well, you could talk to other programmers, read the Java SE 6 documentation, access user groups, search the web, browse forums, read blogs, rss feeds, read the documentation again *ouch!*

Or..... until Wednesday 14th February... you could let Sun Engineers find the answer for you -- within 24 hours.

If that sounds good, just go to the following URL on sun.com and get others to work for you! :-)

http://developers.sun.com/services/expertassistance/promo/javase6.jsp