http://norman.walsh.name/2007/04/21/ubuntuAppServer 10 35 2007-04-21T16:56:03-04:00 $Date: 2007-04-21 17:47:46 -0400 (Sat, 21 Apr 2007) $ Norman Walsh 2007 Norman Walsh More incredible Java tools just an apt-get install away! I thought it was really great when we got Java packaged up and distributed through the Debian packaging system (used by Debian, Ubuntu, and a raft of related distributions). As a Java developer working for Sun, I have lots of reasons to install Java myself. But there are lots of technologies for which I don't have obvious daily need, and for those, I really appreciate the ability to just apt-get install them. Java must be one of those technologies for lots of other people. For an encore, I see that we've arranged to get both Glassfish, our open source, production quality, enterprise application server, and NetBeans, our open source IDE platform, into “Feisty Fawn”, the latest Ubuntu distribution. NetBeans has become my Java development environment of choice, nudging aside even (brace yourselves) Emacs so I'm really happy to see it in Ubuntu. I'm happy to see Glassfish too because I keep meaning to spend some time with it and that just got even easier. Bravo! And Congratulations to everyone who labored to make this happen!