Sun Web Developer Pack
| Company type | Software toolkit |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software development |
| Founded | March 12, 2007 |
| Founder | Sun Microsystems |
| Products | Web application development tools for Java EE, Ajax, REST, Atom, JavaScript |
| Parent | Sun Microsystems |
The Sun Web Developer Pack (SWDP) represents a collection of open source tools provided by Sun Microsystems designed to facilitate the creation of web applications on Java EE application server environments. It is specifically aimed at software developers who utilize contemporary Web 2.0 technologies, including Ajax, REST, Atom, and JavaScript.
Components Included in the SWDP
The SWDP package features:
- Support for scripting languages
- Project Phobos, which allows development of web applications using JavaScript or alternative scripting languages
- Technologies related to Ajax
- Project jMaki, a framework supporting Ajax-enabled web applications in Java, PHP, or Phobos
- Project Dynamic Faces, aimed at building Ajax-capable JavaServer Faces applications
- Features for REST
- A RESTful web services API tailored for constructing RESTful web services in Java
- WADL
- ROME, a Java-based API for both parsing and generating RSS and Atom web feeds
- Atom Server (a subproject of ROME Propono), which serves as a prototype Java API and framework to develop an Atom feed server
Version History
The initial version of SWDP was released on March 12, 2007.