Technical Articles - Solaris Developer Center

May 1, 2009
A Planning Guide for Moving to LDAP as Naming Service in the Solaris OS
Moving from Network Information Service (NIS) or NIS+ to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)? Read this first. Topics include DIT design and implementation of a hybrid DIT.

March 13, 2009
Writing Your First Ruby-on-Rails Web Application
Use NetBeans IDE 6.5 and GlassFish v3 Prelude to create a Ruby-on-Rails Web application in OpenSolaris 2008.11 without typing a single line of code.

March 13, 2009
LOFS Mounted Platform-Specific Routine Libraries With CMT UltraSPARC Processor-Based Systems
Multiple versions of platform-specific routine (PSR) libraries (per platform, per processor) can be used with chip multithreading (CMT) UltraSPARC processor-based systems running the Solaris 10 OS, so that each processor is optimally utilized.

November 25, 2008
Working With Multiple Boot Environments on the OpenSolaris OS
With the OpenSolaris beadm utility, you can efficiently create, modify, or delete multiple boot environments with different system configurations and switch back and forth among them with ease. Note: This article has been updated to reflect the file structure in OpenSolaris 2008.11.

October 13, 2008
Introducing pfexec, a Convenient Utility in the OpenSolaris OS
Passwordless pfexec is the OpenSolaris version of Linux's sudo. Learn how to assign the appropriate rights profile to users so that they can execute commands with root privileges by prepending pfexec to the commands without becoming root. Note: This article has been updated with clarifications.

October 6, 2008
Installing Sun Web Stack on OpenSolaris OS
Sun Web Stack contains numerous preconfigured tools (Apache, MySQL, PHP, NetBeans IDE, and others) for developing and deploying applications. This article describes how to install and initialize the stack on OpenSolaris.

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