About Portal Server 7.1

The Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 product gives end users a portal desktop that provides access to resources and applications. The Portal Server software 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, Portal Server 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.

What's New in This Release

The following new features are available in Portal Server 7.1:

• Administration Portlets and Tag Library

• New Management Console

• Command-line tools for administration

• Communities and collaboration

• Logging

• Administration audit logging

• Monitoring

• RSS Portlet

• New samples

• Support for interportlet Communication

• Support for JSF application

• Support for multiple portals

• Support for Struts application

• User behavior tracking

• Federated search

• Rewriter proxy available in http mode

• Administration console option to control all aspects of the checking and authorization on the rewriter proxy

• Support for Oracle database

• Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0

• Support for Web Server 7.0 including 64-bit support on the Solaris^TM platform

• Support for Communications Express 6.3

• Portal Server administration console and portal 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

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

Removed Features

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

• Secure Remote Access Java 1 Netfile is removed from Portal Server 7.1.

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  Note –

  Java 2 version of NetFile is not removed from Portal Server 7.1.

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