What are the sun java system portal server capabilities?
We have a project and we decided to use portal server. We are comparing the portal servers and I have seen that, the sun java system portal server is not covering our requests. Maybe I am worong. I want to list our heading and can anyone say which ones the sun java system portal server covering?
-Services
List of services (Load balance, Fail-over, app server, etc)
Start/Stop/Configure Services
-User Management
User management screens (accmng and dirserver provides that)
LDAP Configuration (accmng and dirserver provides that)
Internal Authantication (accmng and dirserver provides that)
Multi Domain Usage ?
User properties (categories, access right levels, groups etc) (accmng and dirserver provides that)
-Virtual Portal
Multi Portal Usage ?
Multi site ?
Multi site / portal Administration ?
-Document Management (this very important for us)
Document Uploading ?
Versioning ?
Checkin Checkout (Locking) ?
Document Types ?
Document Libraries ?
-Document Follow (this is very important for us)
Document Approvement Status ?
Document Approvement Levels ?
-MS Office Entegration
Open Document with Word,Excel,P.Point etc ?
Save (checkout) ?
-Content Management
Content writing (accmng and dirserver provides that)
Content Selector (accmng and dirserver provides that)
Content & User groups (accmng and dirserver provides that)
I have seen some strong sides of sun portal server but I I think it is not covering this list. What is your comments?
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-Services
List of services (Load balance, Fail-over, app server, etc)
this is web-app-container functionality, so yes it's supported by the JES stack
- for LB an extra LB is recommended, this has also to be made HA
- Session FO is suported
- Service FO is supported
Start/Stop/Configure Services
-User Management
User management screens (accmng and dirserver provides that)
with PS 7.x:
- psconsole for PS management
- amconsole for access management
- Directory Editor for straight DS manipulation
LDAP Configuration (accmng and dirserver provides that)
dito
Internal Authantication (accmng and dirserver provides that)
AM provides multiple auth services, e.g. password, unix auth, ..
Multi Domain Usage ?
multiple instance with different DNS domains - in case you mean this
User properties (categories, access right levels, groups etc) (accmng and dirserver provides that)
yep
-Virtual Portal
Multi Portal Usage ?
Multi site ?
both with PS7
Multi site / portal Administration ?
with PS7
-Document Management (this very important for us)
Document Uploading ?
with PS7
Versioning ?
is this part of a Portal ? - no, it's part of an integrated Doc or Content Mgmnt System, maybe FW, Interoven, Pirobase
Checkin Checkout (Locking) ?
Document Types ?
Document Libraries ?
dito
-Document Follow (this is very important for us)
Document Approvement Status ?
Document Approvement Levels ?
dito
-MS Office Entegration
Open Document with Word,Excel,P.Point etc ?
Save (checkout) ?
dito
-Content Management
Content writing (accmng and dirserver provides that)
Content Selector (accmng and dirserver provides that)
Content & User groups (accmng and dirserver provides that)
Fatwire included
You defintely have to differentiate between portal, content aggregation, access mgmnt and document mgmnt capabilities. these are defintely different worlds and tasks. the combination of both is a real value and several vendors try to offer ONE product for both which is more a stumbling around than a real solution .. to my mind ..
so the integration task is important to get the real value, in case you are looking for a solution which allows the integration you are fine with Sun's portal solution
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