Thursday November 09, 2006
Thursday November 09, 2006 Now I try and keep this blog, even though it appears here via the good graces of my humble employer and warlord, Sun Microsystems, I try and make it vendor neutral (you are all smart people and realize anything from blogs.sun.com comes with its own set of spices). However, did want to give some space to the newly announced Sun Identity Manager 7.0.
Loaded it on my development space and actually have it running with NetBeans 5.5 as the front end. This allows me to view the script files, scan underlying waveset classes, quickly look at the repository tables in mySQL, and start and stop application servers. It also allowed me to view two IdM's on the same box, so I can play with one and have another environment for play. Also get CVS capabilities too to track any changes I make to the code.
One other nice feature of running with Netbeans interface is I can hook the included Tomcat environment in debugging mode. Runs really slow, but can stop and look at specific points within the product within the IDE. Need to play some more with this, but a good debugger to me is more important than a good editor. More later on this.
As for IdM 7.0, it looks great so far. The Lockhart interface is continued from 6.0 and has been cleaned up to match other Java System products. The biggest change to IdM 6.0 users is the inclusion of Auditing and Service Provider, which use to be separate products. Now all aspects of the IdM, IdA, and IdM SPE can be managed and viewed through the same admin station. Have not seen that in any other vendor's offering.
And it may be me, but the system runs a lot more snappy (don't you love technical terms?). Have not had time to do comparison trials to 6.0, but just working with 7.0 just feels more solid. Have not run into any major problem areas.
Kudos to the product team on an excellent upgrade. For those outside the wall, look for general release in a few weeks.
Loaded it on my development space and actually have it running with NetBeans 5.5 as the front end. This allows me to view the script files, scan underlying waveset classes, quickly look at the repository tables in mySQL, and start and stop application servers. It also allowed me to view two IdM's on the same box, so I can play with one and have another environment for play. Also get CVS capabilities too to track any changes I make to the code.
One other nice feature of running with Netbeans interface is I can hook the included Tomcat environment in debugging mode. Runs really slow, but can stop and look at specific points within the product within the IDE. Need to play some more with this, but a good debugger to me is more important than a good editor. More later on this.
As for IdM 7.0, it looks great so far. The Lockhart interface is continued from 6.0 and has been cleaned up to match other Java System products. The biggest change to IdM 6.0 users is the inclusion of Auditing and Service Provider, which use to be separate products. Now all aspects of the IdM, IdA, and IdM SPE can be managed and viewed through the same admin station. Have not seen that in any other vendor's offering.
And it may be me, but the system runs a lot more snappy (don't you love technical terms?). Have not had time to do comparison trials to 6.0, but just working with 7.0 just feels more solid. Have not run into any major problem areas.
Kudos to the product team on an excellent upgrade. For those outside the wall, look for general release in a few weeks.