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CollabraSuite, BEA Edition software offers a metaphorical representation of a physical workplace. The virtual environment is made up of rooms, which can be arranged into a virtual floor of unlimited rooms, thus allowing for the grouping of like rooms by functionality or other common means. The floors can then be arranged within a virtual building, and numerous buildings can be grouped to create a virtual campus. Within this campus and its encompassing buildings, floors, and rooms, users can communicate seamlessly. CollabraSuite, BEA Edition provides a means of hosting private meetings, group communications, or seminar style conferences for an entire enterprise.
When a user logs into the CollabraSuite, BEA Edition system, they are entering a virtual room where they can meet other users, chat with users and share documents. Not only can users collaborate with others in their current room, but presence awareness capabilities enable them to see users working in other virtual rooms. Users can instantly join other users in any room by simply clicking a button. As users move around the collaborative environment, they can bring their virtual briefcase with them—a portable repository filled with documents that only they can see. Documents in a user's briefcase can easily be shared with other users by dropping a document into a room filecabinet. In addition to storing private documents in a user's briefcase, CollabraSuite, BEA Edition provides the ability to store public documents in virtual file cabinets. These documents can then be viewed by users within the room the file cabinet is located.
The metaphorical representation of a physical workspace provided by CollabraSuite, BEA Edition software also offers security aspects of the physical environment. Strong security features make it possible to permit or deny access to all areas of the collaborative environment and its contents. Individual rooms can be locked with Access Control Lists (ACLs). Read and write ACLs control access to documents stored in rooms as well. The CollabraSuite, BEA Edition environment provides the flexibility and the security of the physical work environment, all while having the freedom to connect users in any location.
CollabraSuite, BEA Edition is developed completely in Java utilizing the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application model, making it deployable to multiple J2EE servers, existing applications or system frameworks such as portals or other suite products as a complementary technology. CollabraSuite, BEA Edition components can be deployed using a flexible HTTP-style interface or by using the CollabraSuite, BEA Edition custom tag library.
This version of CollabraSuite, BEA Edition is specifically designed for deployment to a BEA WebLogic ServerŪ. However the media does contain all of the necessary software and scripts to deploy to other application servers. CollabraSpace recommends that you deploy CollabraSuite, BEA Edition in a development domain prior to performing a deployment into an existing production environment.
The rest of this document will guide you through the process of installing the CollabraSuite, BEA Edition software. If you are upgrading an existing installation of CollabraSuite, BEA Edition, see the appendix Upgrading CollabraSuite. It is assumed that the installer has some familiarity with J2EE applications and the BEA Weblogic application server.
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The following prerequisites must be satisfied before installing CollabraSuite, BEA Edition. Please refer to the Supported Configurations Guide for supported versions of WebLogic and database systems.
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