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The Sun GlassFish Portfolio provides the foundation to develop and deploy Web and enterprise applications and is a cost-effective way to acquire, manage, and maintain critical aspects of a Web platform. Some recently published white papers on GlassFish may be of interest with titles such as “The GlassFish Advantage for Small Businesses,” “Comparing GlassFish and JBoss: Which Application Server is right for you?,” “A Guide to Cost Savings with GlassFish Portfolio,” among others.

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Learn More About the Open Source Continuous Integration Server

Hudson is an open source continuous integration (CI) server, initially developed by Sun, that brings a new level of efficiency and productivity to collaborative software development. By automating the build-and-test process, Hudson saves time, cuts errors and risks, and brings a higher level of transparency to projects. This paper describes the capabilities of Hudson, compares Hudson’s key features to those of competitive offerings, and summarizes why Hudson has quickly become the industry’s most widely adopted open source CI server.

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Latest Versions and Their Features, Benefits, Requirements

The newest features in NetBeans 6.7 involve the integration of Project Kenai - a collaborative environment for developers to host their open-source projects - native Maven support and Hudson integration. This release also offers enhancements for Java, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Groovy and C/C++, among others, and brings support for SVG Rich Components, remote debugging in Ruby and the latest version of GlassFish. Update 6.7.1 is also available. It is considered a minor update although it does add support for the latest features of JavaFX.

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