Speaking at the NetBeans Software Day event, held prior to the official start of the JavaOne 2006 conference, Tim Cramer, executive director of Java tools at Sun, said official announcements were expected shortly. Neither JBoss nor AMD could be reached for comment on Monday afternoon.

"[JBoss is] another very large community of people, and we're going to just kind of team up and have both of our communities join forces," Cramer said.

JBoss will work on an application server plug-in for JBoss enabling NetBeans-based applications to be deployed to the JBoss application server, Cramer said. JBoss also is a member of the rival Eclipse Foundation for open source tooling.'

AMD as part of its NetBeans participation will endorse the Sun Studio compiler as well as a new C and C++ plug-in available now in beta format for NetBeans, Cramer said. He noted Sun uses AMD processors in some of its computers.

Sun officials at the event also touched on the current hot topic of whether or not to open-source the Java programming language