About Portal Server 7.1 Update 2

The Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Update 2 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 7.1 Update 2 provides additional features, such as Blog portlet, community features, and AJAX desktop. You can install Portal Server 7.1 Update 2 using the Java ES installer or you can upgrade your existing Portal Server 7.1 installation to Portal Server 7.1 Update 2 using the patch on the Solaris and Linux platforms.

Portal Server 7.1 Update 2 is not supported on the Windows platform.

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.

This section includes:

• What's New in This Release

• Deprecated or Removed Features

What's New in This Release

The following new features are available in Portal Server 7.1 Update 2:

• Blog Portlet

• Community Membership Including Private Communities

• Community Management

• Cross Community Search

• AJAX Desktop

• Community Home Tab in Developer Sample

Deprecated or Removed Features

The following is a list of features deprecated in Portal Server 7.1 Update 2:

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

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

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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

  • Stellent's OutideIn Html Export technology used for document conversation

• Support for using the Service Registry with the WSRP feature may be removed in a future release.

• Support for the proprietary inter-portlet communication method that was introduced in Portal Server 7.0 may be removed in a future release when the standard eventing mechanism becomes available with JSR-286.

• Java 1 Secure Access NetFile is removed from Portal Server 7.1 Update 2.

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

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• J2SE 1.4 support may be dropped for all or some products in Java ES 6.