Welcome to Sun JavaTM Communications Suite. The Sun Java Communications Suite delivers industry-leading email, calendaring and real-time collaboration functionality for service providers and large organizations worldwide. The suite provides an extensible, standards-based development platform, offering improved performance, reliability and scalability at a lower total cost of ownership. This guide provides demos that enable you to use, learn about, and evaluate the Sun Java Communications Suite software.
This guide is intended for any evaluator, system administrator, or installation technician who wants to evaluate the services delivered by Sun Java Communications Suite.
To use this guide, you need an evaluation system that has Communications Suite software installed. See the document titled Deployment Example: Sun Java Communications Suite 5 on a Single Host for instructions on how to build a complete test system before using this guide.
This document complements the single host installation document and is meant to assist you in using and evaluating the platform once it has been installed. This document provides demos organized by Communications Suite component product area. Within these areas, several features are presented. A complete list of component areas and features is provided below.
Communications Express overview
Messaging demo:
HTML editor
Spelling check
Advanced search
Advanced folder topics
Options and filters
Calendaring demo:
User interface layout
Calendar views (month, week, day, and so forth)
Viewing other calendars
Calendar subscription and creation/ownership/permissions/time zones
Calendar groups (personal enterprise/service provider)
Event creation/group scheduling
Event/Invitations view
Searching (calendars and events within calendars)
New task creation
Import/export
Options/time zones
Address Book demo:
Integration between Address Book and Mail/Calendar
Address Book management
Quick Address Book creation
Connector for Microsoft Outlook interoperability demo:
Calendar drag and drop
Mail compose and view
Address Book creation
Return to Communications Express
Instant Messaging demo:
Contacts and contact groups
Chat with online buddy
Multimedia chat
Multiple simultaneous chat sessions
Invite others to chat
Alerts and polls
Conference room management
Moderating a conference room
Access and privacy filters
API filters
Access Manager provisioning and filtering
Archiving Instant Messaging
HTTP proxy
Delegated Administration demo:
Creating domains
Creating users
The URL for all documentation about Sun Java Communications Suite is:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/sj.comm.suite#hic
The following table describes the typographic changes that are used in this book.
Table P–1 Typographic Conventions
Typeface |
Meaning |
Example |
---|---|---|
AaBbCc123 |
The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output |
Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail. |
AaBbCc123 |
What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output |
machine_name% su Password: |
AaBbCc123 |
A placeholder to be replaced with a real name or value |
The command to remove a file is rm filename. |
AaBbCc123 |
Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized (note that some emphasized items appear bold online) |
Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. |
The following table shows default system prompts and superuser prompts.
Table P–2 Shell Prompts
Shell |
Prompt |
---|---|
C shell on UNIX and Linux systems |
machine_name% |
C shell superuser on UNIX and Linux systems |
machine_name# |
Bourne shell and Korn shell on UNIX and Linux systems |
$ |
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser on UNIX and Linux systems |
# |
Microsoft Windows command line |
C:\ |
The following table explains symbols that might be used in this book.
Table P–3 Symbol Conventions
Symbol |
Description |
Example |
Meaning |
---|---|---|---|
[ ] |
Contains optional arguments and command options. |
ls [-l] |
The -l option is not required. |
{ | } |
Contains a set of choices for a required command option. |
-d {y|n} |
The -d option requires that you use either the y argument or the n argument. |
${ } |
Indicates a variable reference. |
${com.sun.javaRoot} |
References the value of the com.sun.javaRoot variable. |
- |
Joins simultaneous multiple keystrokes. |
Control-A |
Press the Control key while you press the A key. |
+ |
Joins consecutive multiple keystrokes. |
Ctrl+A+N |
Press the Control key, release it, and then press the subsequent keys. |
-> |
Indicates menu item selection in a graphical user interface. |
File -> New -> Templates |
From the File menu, choose New. From the New submenu, choose Templates. |
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