Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Release Notes

About Portal Server 7.1

The Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 gives end users a portal desktop, which provides access to resources and applications. The Portal Server also provides a search engine infrastructure that enables Internet content to be organized and accessed from the portal desktop.

Portal Server also offers Secure Remote Access (SRA) support, which enables remote users to securely access their organization’s network and its services over the Internet. Additionally, it gives your organization a secure Internet portal, providing access to content, applications, and data to any targeted audience such as employees, business partners, or the general public.

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Portal Server 7.1 on Windows can only be used as a developer platform. It can not be used as a deployment platform.

This section includes:

What's New in This Release

The following new features are available in Portal Server 7.1:

Rewriter Proxy is available in http mode
Administration console option to control all aspects of the checking and authorization on the rewriter proxy
Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
Support for Web Server 7.0 including 64-bit support on the Solaris platform
Support for Communications Express 6.3
Support for Oracle database
Portal Server administration console and portal are supported on Internet Explorer 7.0.

Deprecated Features

The following is a list of features deprecated in Portal Server 7.1:

Lotus Address Book and Calendar does not work with old NCSO.jar

Note –
In future, Microsoft Exchange and OWA ruleset for Rewriter will not be packaged along with the product.

Deprecation Notifications and Announcements

The Portal Server Mail, Calendar, and AddressBook Communications Channels are being deprecated and will not be supported in future releases. The components being deprecated are:
- Mail template-based provider
- Mail JSP provider
- Calendar template-based provider
- Calendar JSP provider
- AddressBook template-based provider
- Lotus Notes Mail/Calendar/AddressBook template providers
- Lotus Notes Mail/Calendar/AddressBook JSP providers
- Microsoft Exchange Mail/Calendar/AddressBook template providers
- Microsoft Exchange Mail/Calendar/AddressBook JSP providers
The sample portals will not provide any communications channels integration out of the box as in previous Java ES releases.
The Sun Java System Portal Server has a long history of supporting development of solutions that can be made available to mobile devices. Support for mobile access in future Portal Server releases is being refined to focus on those features that are essential to implement mobile portals of the future. These features include the ability to develop standard portlets that support specific markup languages used by modern devices without requiring knowledge of a proprietary abstract markup language (AML) and the ability to access CC/PP information from standard portlets through a standard JSR-188 API implementation. Other features that are not essential to this focus are being deprecated and may not be supported in future releases. These features include:
- Support for AML
- Support for Mail, Calendar, and Address Book mobile applications
- Built-in voice markup files
- Tag libraries used to support the mail, calendar, and address book applications
- Aligo-supplied device database

Removed Features

The following is a list of features removed in Portal Server 7.1:

Java 1 Secure Access NetFile is removed from Portal Server 7.1.

Note –
Java 2 version of NetFile is not removed from Portal Server 7.1.
J2SE 1.4 support may be dropped for all or some products in Java ES 6.

Hardware and Operating System Requirements

The following table lists hardware and operating system requirements:

Table 2 Hardware and Operating System Requirements


Component	Platform Requirement
Supported platforms	Sun Blade^TM or comparable workstation or server
Operating system	Solaris^TM 9 or Solaris 10 on SPARC Solaris 9 or Solaris 10 on x86 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Update 3 or 4.0 on x86 Windows 2003/XP/Vista in 32-bit mode with latest Service Pack Note: Portal Server 7.1 on Windows can only be used as a developer platform or an evaluation platform. It can not be used as a deployment platform. Do not use Java ES installer for Windows to install Portal Server 7.1. Use the evaluation installer to install Portal Server. Access the evaluation installer from `http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=465e130d` The ReadMe file provided with the installer has information on how to install Portal Server. The evaluation installer provides you a pre-configured image of Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Update 1. You can get a working copy of Portal Server by unzipping the contents of this file.
RAM	1.5 Gbytes for regular deployment on Sun Java System Web Server 2.0 Gbytes for regular deployment on Sun Java System Application Server
Disk space	1 Gbyte for Portal Server and associated applications
Swap space	Twice the amount of physical memory, for example, 2.0 Gbytes RAM and 4.0 Gbytes swap space.