Portal Environment

This section explains the following component products associated with the Portal Server:

• Java Development Kit

• Web Container

• Directory Server

• File System

Java Development Kit

The minimum JDK version required for Portal Server environment is 1.5.0_05 for Solaris SPARC® 9 and 10, Solaris x86 9 and 10, and Linux operating systems.

Web Container

The Portal Server providers run within the Java Virtual Machine provided by the web container, which may vary between different web containers. Support for web containers provided in this release are Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 and Sun Java System Application Server 8.2. It is also recommended that the support for Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 and Sun Java System Application Server 7.0 and 8.1 be provided in this release.

Version 7.0 is not supported on HP-UX and also there are no Java enterprise System wide requirements to support third party web container technology.

Directory Server

The Portal Server environment supports the current and prior releases of the Sun Java System Directory Server 5.2 (R2–R4) and 6.0 (R5).

Currently, there are no Java Enterprise System wide requirements to support third party LDAP servers.

File System

The Portal Server product uses /opt/SUNWportal (/opt is a default that can be changed during installation), /etc/opt/SUNWportal, and /var/opt/SUNWportal for installing Portal Server specific packages and other files into the file system.

Most Portal Server Java classes are defined in packages under the com.sun.portal package name.

The Portal Server is installed as web application portal on the /portal URI in the web container.