Setting up Your OpenSolaris Development Environment

The OpenSolaris 2008.11 release offers complete support for developing and deploying applications for the web. The applications needed for development of web applications are available as packages in the pkg.opensolaris.org repository.

Use the Package Manager application to search and install packages on your system.

If you prefer to use the command-line to work with the packages, see the IPS Commands section for a list of available commands and their usage.

See the Setting up Your OpenSolaris Development Environment to learn how to download and install applications such as Sun Studio compilers, NetBeans, and get the tools required to set up a Web Stack Development environment.