August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
13h 14m
English
Content preview from Sun Web Server: The Essential Guide
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Foreword
NETWORK computing is the heart and soul of Sun Microsystems. Always has been; always will be. If the World Wide Web (WWW) were to be one big telephone switch, Web Server would be the technology that reliably delivers the dial tone or the web tone, as we call it here at Sun. From massively scalable chip-based multi-core multi-threaded servers to the Solaris operating system to Java and the Web Server infrastructure software, Sun has the technology.
As our systems are built to last, the software components of a Web Server are designed to scale from a single core to hundreds of cores, from a few hundred to hundreds of thousands of user connections. Sun Web Server is no exception and is one of the key technologies that drive innovation ...