Deprecated Features

The following is a list of features deprecated in Portal Server 7.1 Update 1:

• 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 OutsideIn Html Export technology used for document conversation