[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris for Java developers?

[Bill Rushmore]

Roman Strobl wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have many contacts in the Java community so I was thinking about 
> leveraging these and showing some OpenSolaris love to Java developers.
>
> I was thinking about what to present - the first thing that comes on my 
> mind is DTrace and Java probes for DTrace. That's probably the best 
> thing to show. I would also like to discuss Chime for DTrace. ZFS might 
> be also interesting, although this is more for deployment (but maybe 
> even for source snapshots, backups, etc.).
>
> Any other ideas or experiences with talking to Java developers - what 
> else is there to make them excited about OpenSolaris?
>
>   
Roman,

I am a Java developer that got involved with OpenSolaris early on. I 
think that both DTrace and Chime are very good but I think it would also 
be helpful to point out the tools that OpenSolaris comes with "out of 
the box" for Java developers. You get Netbeans, Tomcat, and Glassfish, 
for example, installed that are ready to go when you first log in. The 
tools and environment geared towards developers will get you to try out 
OpenSolaris but DTrace, Zones, and ZFS will get you to stay.

Bill