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Indian engineers craft Sun's flagship Java server

By Anand Parthasarathy

BANGALORE, JUNE 5. Engineers at Sun Microsystems' Bangalore-based India Engineering Centre (IEC), are the key creators behind the latest release of the company's Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Application Server which had its global unveiling in Shanghai last week. The enterprise Version 7.0 release, considered one of the industry's best quality software application building environments, was almost wholly developed and will be substantially supported worldwide, by the 650-strong engineering centre, says the Sun IEC's Managing Director, Vijay Anand.

In a special briefing for The Hindu on the sidelines of the Sun India Technology Conference held here today, to mark its fifth anniversary, Mr. Anand added that the other major contributions from Indian engineers to Sun's product portfolio were the portal features of Sun's Java Enterprise System (JES Version 2), as well as the `Gnome'-related developments that went into the Java Desktop System, whose second release version was imminent. Gnome is the desktop environment, fuelling many `Open' Software initiatives.

The Centre has also contributed many of the new features that will go into the next (10th) release of Sun's Solaris operating environment.

This new version due by year-end will be of particular interest to developers in India, in the light of Sun's announcement a few days ago, that it is contemplating turning this proprietary product into an open source software — a distribution strategy that will put it in the same league as Linux.

In the coming months, Sun's India Centre expects to work on beefing up future releases of the Java Desktop System by adding extensions for the Wide Area (WiMax) wireless arena, even as it aims to create a scaled-down version that will provide an affordable, yet robust operating environment for mass consumer PCs, Mr. Anand said.

Today's conference witnessed scenes that one may never see any where in the world, outside Bangalore: A cinema `house full'-style rush of over 1,000 young software geeks for the day-long event that was planned only a few hundred participants. Even as the two parallel technical sessions providing `sneak previews' of upcoming Sun technologies, got underway, the venue was packed to overflowing and many late comers could not be registered for want of even standing room.

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