Sun Web Developer Pack
Written by on March 14th, 2007 in Ajax News.
The Sun Web Developer Pack isn’t a sexy name, and having ‘Sun’ start it out often doesn’t help a technology…. but there is some good technology here.
The Sun Web Developer Pack helps you to leverage emerging web technologies and techniques to create interactive and dynamic web applications for the enterprise. This toolkit is a collection of technologies for Ajax, Scripting and REST-based services development supported by a NetBeans plugin that simplifies the design and development of Rich Internet Applications.
If you look past the marketing-speak you see that Sun has packaged technology such as Project jMaki and Project Phobos.
jMaki is a lightweight, client/server framework for creating JavaScript-centric Web 2.0 applications. You can use jMaki when developing with PHP, Portlets, Facelets, Java, and JavaScript.
Do you see that? Since when did Sun create something that lets you develop with PHP 
Phobos is a lightweight, scripting-friendly web application environment that runs on the Java platform.
Phobos allows you to write with JavaScript on the server side, which can be very powerful indeed.
There are a vast number of demos available including interesting mashups.
Source: Ajaxian
Original Article: http://ajaxian.com/archives/sun-web-developer-pack