Sun Web Developer Pack

The Sun Web Developer Pack (SWDP) is a collection of open source software released by Sun Microsystems for developing web applications that run on Java EE application servers. The SWDP is targeted at software developers interested in writing web applications that use Web 2.0 technologies such as Ajax, REST, Atom, and JavaScript.

Software Included in the SWDP

The SWDP consists of the following software:

• Scripting language support
  • Project Phobos, a project that allows you to write web applications in JavaScript or other scripting languages
• Ajax technologies
  • Project jMaki, a framework for creating Ajax-enabled web applications in Java, PHP, or Phobos
  • Project Dynamic Faces, a framework for creating Ajax-enabled JavaServer Faces applications
• REST
  • RESTful web services, an API for creating REST web services in Java
  • WADL
• ROME, a Java API for parsing and generating RSS and Atom web feeds
• Atom Server, a prototype Java API and framework for creating a web feed server for Atom feeds

Release History

Release 1 of the SWDP was made public on March 12, 2007.

External links

• Sun Web Developer Pack home page
• Documentation
  • Online SWDP Tutorial
  • SWDP Tutorial bundle download
  • Getting Started with the SWDP
• java.net project pages
  • Project jMaki
  • Project Dynamic Faces
  • Project Phobos
  • WADL
  • ROME API