Chapter 1 Evaluation Scenario Overview

This chapter describes the goals of the evaluation and lists the use cases on which the evaluation solution is based.

This chapter introduces the evaluation in the following sections:

• About Java Enterprise System

• Goals of the Evaluation

• The Evaluation Use Cases

About Java Enterprise System

Sun Java^TM Enterprise System (Java ES) is infrastructure software that supports a wide range of enterprise computing needs, such as creating a secure intranet portal that provides the employees of an enterprise with secure access to email, calendar, and in-house business applications.

Java ES provides many end-user services without custom programming, and it also supports custom, distributed, enterprise applications.

Java ES is composed of software components, such as Sun Java System Directory Server and Access Manager. To meet the computing needs of different enterprises, Java ES components can be combined and configured in many different ways.

Each enterprise assesses its own needs and designs its own Java ES solution. The optimal solution for an enterprise depends on the Java ES services that are needed, the number of users that must be served, the kind of hardware that is available, and similar considerations.

For more information on Java ES technical concepts and terminology see Java Enterprise System Technical Overview (http://download.oracle.com/817-5764). For more information on designing a Java ES solution, see Java Enterprise System Deployment Planning Guide (http://download.oracle.com/817-5759).

Goals of the Evaluation

This document describes how to install a basic set of Java ES components and configure them to provide networked messaging, calendar, and portal services without any custom application programming. This document also describes how to set up LDAP user accounts so you can access these services through their web-based interfaces.

The set of components you install for evaluation also supports single sign-on and proxy authentication, so that you can evaluate these Java ES features. This document describes how to configure single sign-on and proxy authentication.

By following the procedures in this document, you learn how Java ES components provide core, shared, networked services for an organization’s employees and customers. You learn how to access these core services through built-in, web-based interfaces. You also learn enough about the capabilities of Java ES to imagine how a Java ES solution could deliver services to your organization’s employees and customers.

The Evaluation Use Cases

This document describes a product evaluation that demonstrates a number of Java ES features. The evaluation features are identified in the following set of use cases:

• Installation and configuration use case: install the Java Enterprise System components on one system.

• Installation and configuration use case: use Java Enterprise System configuration tools to configure component instances.

• Installation and configuration use case: verify the mail, calendar, portal, and instant messaging services, using the administrator accounts.

• Administrator use case: configure the evaluation solution’s directory tree and establish a single end user account.

• Administrator use case: configure Access Manager single sign-on (SSO) for the mail and calendar services.

• End user use case: use the Communications Express interface and the single sign-on feature to access mail and calender services through a single interface.

• Administrator use case: configure Portal Server proxy authentication.

• End user use case: log in to the portal desktop and use the single sign-on feature to access mail and calendar services.

This document shows you how to design, install, configure and use a Java Enterprise System solution that implements these use cases and demonstrates these features.

Although the evaluation solution use cases are relatively simple, this document uses the standard deployment planning methodology to describe how the evaluation solution is designed and the installation procedures are developed. Chapter 2, The Architecture Chapter 3, The Deployment Specifications, and Chapter 4, The Installation and Configuration Plan, describe how the components for the evaluation solution are selected, how the architecture for the solution is developed, and how the values you use to install and configure the solution are developed. The description follows the deployment planning methodology outlined in Java Enterprise System Deployment Planning Guide.