AMP Stack for Web Application Development and Deployment

Web Stack software is a collection of popular open source web technologies that enable developers to easily build and deploy web applications. Web Stack includes an AMP (Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP) stack that has been optimized for the Oracle Solaris OS. See Sun GlassFish Web Stack Documentation for more information.

The Web Stack components include the following technologies:

• Apache – An HTTP web server, which serves web pages to web clients such as browsers.

• MySQL – A relational database engine (DBMS) that can be used to store most dynamic data for web applications.

• PHP – A scripting language, which is used to embed instructions within HTML pages to provide dynamic content. A NetBeans plugin for PHP can also be installed in the NetBeans IDE from the Tools >  Plugins >  Available Plugins menu.

• PostgreSQL – An object-relational database management system (ORDBMS). PostgreSQL uses a client/server model.

• Ruby on Rails – A framework for web application development. Ruby is the object-oriented programming language. Rails is an open source Ruby framework for developing web-based, database-driven applications. In Web Stack, Ruby includes extensions for OpenSSL, curses, Tcl/Tk, and readline. The NetBeans IDE includes support for Ruby and JRuby.

• Squid – A fully-featured HTTP/1.0 proxy server. Squid offers a rich access control, authorization and logging environment to develop web proxy and content serving applications.

• memcached – memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, which speeds up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

• Tomcat Servlet container server software, which processes Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) applications to provide dynamic web pages.