Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Update 1 Release Notes

Proxylet


Proxylet help is available only from the proxylet channel. (#5036777)

Description:

Proxylet help is available only from the proxylet channel. If the user clicks the Help link from Edit Proxylet page, the Help link displays desktop online help.


For Firefox browser on the Solaris platform, Proxylet does not come up in Java Web Start mode. (#6464974)

Solution:

Copy istall_dir/defaults/profile/mimeTypes.rdf from Firefox for Windows to istall_dir/defaults/profile directory of Firefox for Solaris.


Logging out of Portal Server does not close the proxylet console. (#6496855)

Solution:

Stop the proxylet application and close the browser.


The portal desktop is not refreshed after selecting Automatic Download of Proxylet option. (#6493401, 6509603)

Description:

If there is not any proxylet application in the proxylet channel, when you click the Edit button and select the Automatic Download of Proxylet option, the portal desktop should get refreshed. If you use Mozilla 1.0.7 on Windows 2000 platform, the portal desktop does not refresh.

Solution:

When proxylet is configured for automatic download, the administrator needs to specify an application url for the portal desktop.

  1. In the Portal Server administrator console, select the Portals tab.

  2. Select an organization or add the user for whom the Application list needs to be provided in the DP list.

  3. Select the Manage Tabs and Container link under the selected organization or user.

  4. In the left pane, select proxylet.

  5. In the right pane, select the AppUrl link.

  6. Add the application in the application url page.

  7. The created application URL will be displayed in the portal desktop for the particular user display profile or for the selected organization.


For a non-default root proxylet user, the pac file does not contain any of the proxylet rules. (#6445867)

Description:

For a proxylet user, the pac file does not contain any of the proxylet rules.

  1. In Access Manager administrator console, create a user under developersample.

  2. In Portal Server administrator console, create the proxylet rules for developersample.

  3. Log in to Portal Server desktop as the proxylet user.

  4. Launch the proxylet.

    The proxylet gets downloaded in the Applet mode. But the generated pac file does not contain any of the proxylet rules.

Solution:

Do the following:

  1. Log in to the Portal Server administration console.

  2. Select the SRA tab and click the proxylet tab.

  3. Change the COS priority to anything less than the Highest for the organization.

  4. Change the COS priority for o=DeveloperSample to anything less than the Highest.

  5. Set all sub organizations under developer_sample COS priority to Highest.

    For the users created under the sub organization, the corresponding proxylet pac file gets generated.


Proxylet pac file does not generate after closing the applet window for the given session. (#6490738 )

Solution:

Do the following:

  1. Log out from the current session and close the browser window.

  2. Open a new session of the browser and start proxylet.