PHP In GlassFish

GlassFish is an App Server written in Java. So GlassFish does most of its work with the help of Java Servlets.

GlassFish does not have built-in support for PHP. Actually it can support PHP if a Java implementation of PHP exists for GlassFish. This was made available by Quercus Caucho at http://quercus.caucho.com/. Download the binaries and source of Quercus from the site.

Configuring C, C++ In NetBeans 6.5

In Linux and Solaris NetBeans 6.5 configures itself using the gcc/g++ compiler which is available in several flavors of Linux to run C/C++ programs. However, in Windows, there isn’t any C/C++ compiler pre-installed, so we need to manually install a C/C++ compiler and configure NetBeans 6.5 with the compiler.

To achieve this, we use Cygwin – A Linux like environment for Windows. It contains several popular tools like gcc, g++, gmake, gdb, etc. Cygwin can be downloaded and installed from http://www.cygwin.com/.

NetBeans 6.5 Installation

Installation of NetBeans 6.5 requires Java Development Kit 5 or Java Development Kit 6 as a pre-requisite. You can download the required JDK from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/.

The installation procedure of NetBeans is the same in Windows, Linux and Solaris. Since NetBeans is written in Java, it is platform-independent and the installation User-Interface is also same in any operating system. NetBeans 6.5 is available as binaries for all the three Operating Systems – Windows, Linux and Solaris. Download it from http://www.netbeans.org/.

Run OpenSolaris 2008.05 In VirtualBox

This article emphasizes on how to load the OpenSolaris 2008.05 VDI image which was distributed as a part of a resource DVD distributed for college students by Sun Microsystems Inc.

The article is broken down into two parts - Installing VirtualBox and Loading the VDI image in VirtualBox.

PPPOE Internet Configuration For OpenSolaris 2008.05

One of the first things I had to learn when I moved from Windows to OpenSolaris was to get my Internet up and running. I had an Airtel broadband connection which followed the PPPOE (Point to Point Protocol Over Ethernet) network protocol. I had to experiment a bit and due time got a proper process established for network configuration. So if you are also planning to setup a broadband connection in OpenSolaris, edit the following files accordingly -