Deprecated Identity Manager Features (Sun Identity Manager 8.1 Release Notes)

Sun Identity Manager 8.1 Release Notes

Deprecated Identity Manager Features

The following Identity Manager features are deprecated. Support for these features will continue until the next major release of Identity Manager. Please contact your Customer Care representative or Customer Support if you have questions.

Business Process Editor (BPE) is deprecated, and will be removed in the next major release of Identity Manager. Please use the Sun Identity Manager Integrated Development Environment(Identity Manager IDE) instead. (ID-17693)
MetaView has been removed from new installations of Identity Manager. Customers who are using MetaView in a pre-8.0 version of Identity Manager will be able to continue using it. Please contact your Customer Care representative or Customer Support if you have questions. (ID-17244)
Request Resource type is deprecated, in favor of External Resources. You can no longer create new connections using the Request adapter. Use the External Resource adapter instead. For information about using the new External Resources feature, see Understanding and Managing External Resources in Sun Identity Manager 8.1 Business Administrator’s Guide. (ID-20080)
SAPResourceAdapter built with JC0 2.1.8 is deprecated with this Identity Manager Version 8.1 release. SAP announced a new SAP Java Connector, (SAP JCo), API, JCo 3.0.

Note –
See SAP note 1077727: SAP JCo 3.0 release and support strategy. (Note date: 2008/11/18). Reason and Prerequisites: SAP JCo 3.0 is replacing SAP JCo 2.0 and SAP JCo 2.1 and is released for Java 5. Note that SAP JCo 3.0 is incompatible with former versions of SAP JCo. For details and migration instructions read the SAP JCo 3.0 documentation.

The JCo 3.0 adapter is incompatible with former versions of SAP JCo and requires a minimum JVM version of 1.5. JCo 2.1.8 is only supported for use with JVM 1.4.2, and SAP has not officially announced support for JCo 2.1.8/JVM 1.5. Due to this constraint, the default SAPResourceAdapter that was built using JCo 2.1.8, is deprecated with this Identity Manager Version 8.1 release.

A new default SAPResourceAdapter is planned for the Identity Manager Version 9.0 release. This new adapter will be built against SAP JCo 3.0 or higher and will adhere to Identity Manager's minimum JVM requirements, such as JVM 1.5. In addition, this new SAP JCo 3.0 adapter will be added to upcoming patch releases for both Identity Manager 8.0 and Identity Manager 8.1. Identity Manager 8.0 and Identity Manager 8.1 patches will continue to ship the default SAP JCo 2.1.8 adapter (SAPResourceAdapter).