About Portal Server 7.1 Update 1

The Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 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 1 provides additional features, such as Blog portlet, community features, and AJAX desktop. You can install Portal Server 7.1 Update 1 using the Java ES installer or you can upgrade your existing Portal Server 7.1 installation to Portal Server 7.1 Update 1 using the patch on the Solaris and Linux platforms.

Portal Server 7.1 Update 1 can be installed on the Windows platform using the evaluation installer and is certified only to be a developer 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 Features

• Hardware and Operating System Requirements

• Supported Browsers

What's New in This Release

The following new features are available in Portal Server 7.1 Update 1:

• Blog Portlet

• Community Membership Including Private Communities

• Community Management

• Cross Community Search

• AJAX Desktop

• Community Home Tab in Developer Sample

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

Removed Features

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

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

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  Java 2 version of NetFile is not removed from Portal Server 7.1 Update 1.

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

Hardware and Operating System Requirements

The following table lists hardware and operating system requirements:

Table 2 Hardware and Operating System Requirements

Component	Platform Requirement
Supported platforms	Sun BladeTM or comparable workstation or server
Operating system	SolarisTM 9 or Solaris 10 on SPARC Solaris 9 or Solaris 10 on x86  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Update 3 or 4.0 on x86  Windows 2003/XP/Vista in 32-bit mode with latest Service Pack  Note: Portal Server 7.1 Update 1 on Windows can only be used as a developer platform or an evaluation platform. It can not be used as a deployment platform. Use the evaluation installer to install Portal Server 7.1 Update 1. Access the evaluation installer from http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=465e130d The ReadMe file provided with the installer has information on how to install Portal Server. The evaluation installer provides you a pre-configured image of Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Update 1. You can get a working copy of Portal Server by unzipping the contents of this file.
RAM	1.5 Gbytes for regular deployment on Sun Java System Web Server  2.0 Gbytes for regular deployment on Sun Java System Application Server
Disk space	1 Gbyte for Portal Server and associated applications
Swap space	Twice the amount of physical memory, for example, 2.0 Gbytes RAM and 4.0 Gbytes swap space.

Supported Browsers

Portal Server is supported on the following browsers:

• Internet Explorer 6 SP1

• Mozilla 1.7.12

• Firefox 1.0.7