About Portal Server 7.2

The Sun Java System Portal Server 7.2 is the first distribution release in open source. OpenPortal will include the source and binaries while the sun branded version will be available on http://www.sun.com as Sun Java System Portal Server 7.2. This release includes the Desktop Design Tool (DDT), Delegated administration features, Application Server 9.1 support, integration with Content Management System (CMS), Sun Java Composite Application Suite, and the requirements that emerge from open sourcing of the portal product.

The Sun Java System Portal Server product is localized in the following seven languages.

• German (de)

• Spanish (es)

• French (fr)

• Japanese (ja)

• Korean (ko)

• Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)

• Tranditional Chinese (zh_TW)

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 7.2:

• Desktop Design Tool

• Delegated Administration

• Enterprise Edition Installer

• SharePoint Integrated Services

• Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Support for Secure Remote Access

• CMS Portlet and CMS Framework

• JSR 286 / Portlet Container 2.0 Support

• WSRP 1.0 Reintegration

• Portal Server 7.2 Samples Consolidation

• Enhancements to Cluster Configuration

• Google Gadgets Integration

• Workflow API

• JSF Portlet Bridge 1.2

Deprecated or Removed Features

The following is a list of features deprecated in Portal Server 7.2:

• Communications Channels

• Mobile Access feature subset such as applications, voice support and so on.

• Template Containers

• Stellent filters are removed and replaced by Nutch Converter

• Mobile Access feature subsets such as Aligo, AML support, and Expanded device database

• Portlet builder support

• Java Enterprise Edition Samples

• Support for HPUX

• Deployment installer support on Windows platform

• Support for Application Server 8.x, Webserver, WebLogic, and WebSphere containers

• Support for JDK 1.4 at runtime

• Non-standard Inter Portlet Communication mechanism

• Support for Sun Service Registry

• Useradmin tag library

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 is removed.

• Support for the proprietary Inter Portlet Communication (IPC) method that was introduced in Portal Server 7.0 is removed. In Portal Server 7.2, the standard eventing mechanism is available with JSR-286.

• Java 1 Secure Access NetFile is removed from Portal Server 7.2.

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  Java 2 version of NetFile is not removed from Portal Server 7.2.

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

The Display Profile Locale tag may no longer be used to define the locale-specific properties in Portal Server 7.2. Use the ConditionalProperties tag with the locale type instead. For example:

<Locale language="en" country="US">
<String name="title" value="Sample JSP Channel"/>
<String name="description" value="This is the sample for the Jsp Provider"/>
</Locale>

Replace the above Locale tag with

<ConditionalProperties condition="locale" value="en_US">
<String name="title" value="Sample JSP Channel"/>
<String name="description" value="This is the sample for the Jsp Provider"/>
</ConditionalProperties>