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SAMP is Solaris + AMP (Apache, PHP, MySQL) with Ruby and lots of other great tools, too. It's been pre-configured to give you the most popular applications and they work seamlessly out-of-the-box. Get it here.

The NetBeans IDE is the best tool for programming in Ruby and JRuby, and for developing with the Ruby On Rails framework. Find out everything you need to know in our Ruby Developer Resource Center.

Deploy web applications built with leading-edge technologies, like JavaServer Pages, Java servlets, Active Server Pages (ASP), ColdFusion, Personal Home Page construction kit (PHP), and Common Gateway Interface (CGI).

Sun Java Enterprise System gives you rapid architecture and modeling capabilities for faster development of enterprise-grade applications on the Java platform. The latest release features UML modeling, code-aware collaboration, and application profiling to dramatically increase enterprise development team productivity.

JavaFX Script is a highly productive scripting language that enables content developers to leverage the enormous popularity of Java to create rich applications and services for deployment on the widest range of platforms - from mobile devices to set-top boxes and Blu-ray DVDs to desktops.

Set up public and private communities, threaded discussions and create a wiki-based desktop for your enterprise portal. You can also implement dynamic Ajax pages, portlets, widgets, WSRP, search, secure remote access, mobile access and more.

Java Application Platform SDK
This early access release (Update 3 Preview 2) includes the Sun Web Developer Pack Release 1 and provides updates to the app server, Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Beta 2 (based on GlassFish V2 Beta 2), Open ESB, and Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1.

Ajax technologies allow a website to be -- or appear to be -- highly responsive because of support for asynchronous and partial refreshes of a web page. Ajax technologies also bring the ability to produce Rich Internet Applications within a browser environment. Get the Sun technologies and tools that will Ajax-enable your web apps.

jMaki is a lightweight client/server framework for creating JavaScript-centric Next Generation Web applications. You can use jMaki when developing with PHP, Portlets, Facelets, Java, and JavaScript.

The JSF-Extensions runtime brings the power of Ajax to existing and future JSF developed applications. Includes the Phobos framework, too.

Get all the latest JavaScript tools and resources including technical articles, interviews, blogs, downloads and much more.

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Get the latest Web 2.0 free, open source applications, and a comprehensive repository of packages with OpenSolaris. Or if you're a system administrator or enterprise developer, you'll want to use Solaris 10, Sun's supported version of Solaris with access to thousands of 3rd party software applications, the latest updates, and unmatched support offerings.

Sun's application platform suite, along with support for industry standard applications, help you deliver your web applications to their fullest capabilities.

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The NetBeans IDE is a free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. You get all the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web and mobile applications, in Java, C/C++ and even Ruby. The IDE runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris and more; it is easy to install and use straight out of the box.

By leveraging JavaScript on the server, Phobos allows developers to use the same language on the client and server tier of a web application, eliminating the impedance mismatch that characterizes other approaches to Ajax.

The GlassFish community is building free, open source, production-quality, enterprise software. The main deliverables are an Application Server, the Java EE 5 Reference Implementation, and the Java Persistence API Reference Implementation.

Whether creating a rich user experience with Ajax and JavaServer Faces or a collaborative, community-focused application such as a wiki or blogging server, do it more quickly and with less effort using the Java EE platform. Download the Java EE SDK.