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The AJAXWorld Conference and Expo in New York City was the scene of the announcement of the beta release of GlassFish V2 from Sun Microsystems. This is the next major version of Java(TM) EE 5 application server and the release of Sun(TM) Developer Pack, a toolkit for simplifying and enabling advanced Internet applications for the Java platform. These releases will help build Web 2.0 and SOA applications which use AJAX and other technologies.

The GlassFish V2 Beta is available for download. Flexible open source technologies have been in demand and the scalability of Solaris 10 and the GlassFish application will no doubt become popular. GlassFish will boast of ease ease of development. The Sun Web Developer Pack simplifies access to open source techologies for creating rich Internet-based applications. This will help create RSS feeds more rapidly. The developer community will get next-generation Java technologies such as jMaki. Ben Galbraith, co-founder of Ajaxian.com, suggests to learn jMaki before you start down the path of integrating some of the popular Ajax frameworks into your application.

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