B.13 Sun Microsystems

Sun is the inventor of Java technology. Apart from Java and Web Services technologies, Sun also supplies diversified technologies and software products, including an application server, middleware, a directory server, and an identity management product. Sun has recently rebranded iPlanet and Forte products as Sun ONE .

Figure B-9 shows the Sun ONE architecture framework for building Web Services. It is a meta-architecture framework. In addition, there are supporting software products (branded under Sun ONE ) that provide each of the architecture components . Recently, N1 is the vision and new technology strategy.

Application Server

• Sun ONE Application Server 7.0 (previously iPlanet Application Server) ” SOAP is bundled in Sun ONE Application Server 6.5. SOAP 1.2, WSDL generation; JAX Pack is bundled in version 7.0

Middleware

• Sun ONE Integration Server (previously iPlanet Integration Server) 3.0 ” B2B and EAI editions. It is SOAP enabled and integrated well with UDS, XML Adapter, and Sun ONE Studio. The new release supports ebXML

• Sun ONE XML Adapter 1.0

• Sun ONE Message Queue 3.0 ” a flagship JMS 1.1 compliant product. It supports JAXM

Developer Tools

• Sun ONE Studio (previously Forte for Java) 3.0/4.0 ” developer IDE with plug-in modules for SOAP and WSDL generation

• Sun ONE Unified Development Server 5.0 ” building block and developer platform for Sun ONE Integration Server and Sun ONE Application Server, together with Sun ONE Studio (previously Forte for Java)

• Web Services Developer Pack 1.1 ” an all-in-one JAX-SOAP-UDDI-ebXML development kit

Web Services Security

• Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0 ” a Liberty solution for managing federated identity and cross-domain Single Sign-on using SAML and Liberty http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/identity_srvr/home_identity.html

• Sun ONE Directory Server ” enterprise and federated directory solutions to support identity management

References

http://wwws.sun.com/software/

http://dcb.sun.com/practices/ webservices /

Figure B-9. Sun ONE Architecture