Deprecated Features

The following features are being deprecated with this release of the Portal Server software.

• NetMail

• Template Based Containers

• Command Line Utilities

• Java 1 Applets

• Deprecation Notifications and Announcements

NetMail

The NetMail feature is being removed from this release. This includes the NetMail Java applet, NetMail Lite, the MailcheckProvider and Mailcheck channel, the NetMail LDAP service, and NetMail-related features of the UserInfoProvider.

Template Based Containers

The template-based containers, tab and table, are being deprecated. This includes the display profile Provider elements, templates, TemplateTableContainerProvider class, and TemplateTabContainerProvider class. The same functionality is provided by the JSP-based versions of the containers.

Command Line Utilities

Most of Portal Server CLIs from previous releases are deprecated and psadmin is the new CLI utility for the Portal Server. The only CLIs used by the Portal Server from previous releases are: psconfig, perftune, pstune-portal, pstune-env, and rdmgr. The following table shows the command-line utilities that are being deprecated in this release and the new command-line utility that support the same functionality.

Table 2 CLI — Deprecated Commands Map to New Commands

Deprecated CLI	New CLI
deploy	psadmin redeploy
dpadmin	psadmin merge/modify/add/remove/list-display-profile
gateway	psadmin start-sra-instance/stop-sra-instance
netletd	psadmin start-sra-instance/stop-sra-instance
par	psadmin import/export/list-par
pdeploy	psadmin deploy-portlet and psadmin undeploy-portlet
rwadmin	psadmin create-rewriter-ruleset psadmin delete-rewriter-ruleset psadmin get-rewriter-ruleset psadmin list-rewriter-ruleset psadmin set-rewriter-ruleset
rwproxyd	psadmin start-sra-instance/stop-sra-instance

Java 1 Applets

Java 1 applets are being deprecated. This deprecation affects browsers that do not support plug-in JVMs (such as Netscape 4.7x and IE 5.0). To avail of the new features in Portal Server, use newer browsers.

Deprecation Notifications and Announcements

Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 is being deprecated and it will not be supported in future releases.

Support for Netscape Navigator versions 6.2.1 and 7.0 is being deprecated and they will not be supported in future releases.