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You probably guessed it is not a new animal species (although it might look pretty cool ;-)), but what is it then? Well, this CAT thing is simply an abbreviation that stands for GlassFish Community Acceptance Testing, i.e. a community Beta testing program. Its main goal is to provide GlassFish community with an opportunity to significantly influence the quality of GlassFish as well as to get early feedback on its stability and usability. This FishCAT program for GlassFish v3 will start in about one week.  Joining is as easy as filling out an online application form; applications are accepted until Wed 9/23. More information can be found here or here, it is also recommended to subscribe the quality@glassfish.dev.java.net mailing list. G11n team is working to proved as well some multi-language build, so that some i18n (internationalization) and l10n (localization) testing are possible as well. FishCAT is looking forward to hearing from you! :-)

If you are interesting in getting some updates about Sun & Oracle, you can find some there: http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/

Supported containers and OS for OpenSSO Express Build 8

Operating System/ Container	Sun Java ES Web Server	Sun Java ES Application Server	Glassfish	Oracle WebLogic	IBM WebSphere	Oracle Application Server	JBoss	Tomcat	Geronimo
Solaris 10 (sparc, x86 & x64)	7.0U4	9.1U2	V2,  V2.1 and V3	10.3	7.0	10.1.3	5.1	5.5.27/6.0.18	2.1.1 with tomcat
Solaris 9 (sparc, x86)	7.0U4	9.1U2	V2,  V2.1 and V3	10.3	7.0	10.1.3	5.1	5.5.27/6.0.18	2.1.1 with tomcat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Server (Base)	7.0U4	9.1U2	V2,  V2.1 and V3	10.3	7.0	10.1.3	5.1	5.5.27/6.0.18	Not supported
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Advanced Platform	7.0U3	9.1U2	V2,  V2.1 and V3	10.3	7.0	10.1.3	5.1	5.5.27/6.0.18	Not supported
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server (Base)	7.0U3	9.1U2	V2,  V2.1 and V3	10.3	7.0	10.1.3	5.1	5.5.27/6.0.18	Not supported
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform	7.0U4	9.1U2	V2,  V2.1 and V3	10.3	7.0	10.1.3	5.1	5.5.27/6.0.18	Not supported
Windows 2003 Standard Server	7.0U4	9.1U2	V2,  V2.1 and V3	10.3	7.0	10.1.3	5.1	5.5.27/6.0.18	Not supported
Windows 2003 Enterprise Server	7.0U4	9.1U2	V2,  V2.1 and V3	10.3	7.0	10.1.3	5.1	5.5.27/6.0.18	Not supported
Windows 2003 Datacenter Server	7.0U4	9.1U2	V2,  V2.1 and V3	10.3	7.0	10.1.3	5.1	5.5.27 6.0.18	Not supported
Windows Vista	7.0U4	9.1U2	V2,  V2.1 and V3	10.3	7.0	Not Supported	Not Supported	5.5.27 6.0.18	Not supported
Windows XP	7.0U3	9.1U2	V2,  V2.1 and V3	10.3	7.0	Not Supported	Not Supported	5.5.27 6.0.18	Not supported
IBM AIX 5.3	Not Supported	Not Supported		Not Supported	7.0	Not Supported	Not Supported	5.5.27 6.0.18	Not supported
Ubuntu 8.x	Not Supported	Not Supported	V2,  V2.1 and V3	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	6.0.18	Not Supported
OpenSolaris	Not Supported	Not Supported	V2,  V2.1 and V3	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	6.0.18	Not Supported
Windows 2008 Server	Not Supported	Not Supported	V2,  V2.1 and V3 (TBD)	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	6.0.18	Not Supported

Note: The last column which is hidden by the blog layout contains Geronimo 2.1.1 with tomcat as webcontainer, and is supported only on Solaris 10 (sparc, x86 & x64) and Solaris 9(sparc, x86).

CTI has just launched a survey to gather feedbacks from users: what you like, don't like, what you want to see, etc... It is a 14 questions survey, ~10mins, straightforward, simple. Even if you are not familiar with CTI, you can still fill it, it helps the CTI guys to know which kind of people (beginners, advanced) are having interest in this tool. Moreover, there are 20 Globalization T-shirts to win !

It's available from the main page of the CTI tool or directly at: http://survey.sunvirtuallab.com/limesurvey/index.php?sid=92616〈=en

See as well http://blogs.sun.com/cti/ or http://blogs.sun.com/cti/entry/cti_tool_survey for more details.

The survey will be closed on Sep, 16th, so still 8 days to go !

The build built on Tue Sep 1 08:00:00 PST 2009 is now the official OpenSSO Express Build 8 !

bits: http://download.java.net/general/opensso/stable/opensso-build8/opensso_express_20090901.zip
doc: http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSSO/Sun+OpenSSO+Documentation under OpenSSO Express 8

G11n testing was done for this build, and FYI, here are the bugs we found:
l10n bugs:
- Zh_cn - 5243 - New - Inconsitent translation for "Key" in newing Request Handler (zh_CN)
- Fr - 5264 - French: wrong translation while executing ./ssopatch - will be fixed in Expr9
- Fr - 5263 - French: wrong translation in ./ssopatch command - will be fixed in Expr9
- Zh_cn - 5243 - Inconsitent translation for "Key" in newing Request Handler (zh_CN)
- Zh_cn - 5245 - incorrect translation in workflowMessages_zh_TW.properties
- Zh_* - 5249 - l10n: incorrect translation of message in ssoPatch tool (zh_CN/zh_TW)

i18n bugs:
- all - 5247 - Label "Security Mechanism" NOT i18ned
- all - 5250 - Command setup in ssoAdminTools.zip NOT pickup l10ned messages
- all - 5278 - Email context in garbage for Request OTP code
- all - 5282 - Create Hosted Identity Provider has non-translated messages
- all - 5283 - DiagnosticTool - Test Server has a unlocalized output

Here are some fresh news regarding Sun acquisition by Oracle:

The European Commission has decided to seek more information regarding Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems by conducting a Phase Two inquiry. The U.S. Department of Justice approved Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems without conditions and terminated the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act on August 20, 2009. Sun's stockholders approved the transaction on July 16, 2009. Closing of the transaction is subject to certain conditions, including clearance by the European Commission.

See this page on Oracle side http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/032542

The Release Notes, the Installation and Configuration Guide and the Installation and Configuration Guide are now available on http://wiki.sun.com  in English + 4 languages -> French, German, Simplified Chinese, Japanese.

Here are the different URLs:

Sun GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 Release Notes
Sun GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 Release Notes (French)
Sun GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 Release Notes (German)
Sun GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 Release Notes (Japanese)
Sun GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 Release Notes (Simplified Chinese)

Web Stack Getting Started Guide
Web Stack Getting Started Guide (French)
Web Stack Getting Started Guide (German)
Web Stack Getting Started Guide (Japanese)
Web Stack Getting Started Guide (Simplified Chinese)

Sun GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 Installation and Configuration Guide
Sun GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 Installation and Configuration Guide (French)
Sun GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 Installation and Configuration Guide (German)
Sun GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 Installation and Configuration Guide (Japanese)
Sun GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 Installation and Configuration Guide (Simplified Chinese)

WebStack 1.5 does not have so far any uninstaller.

Testing it regularly, I needed to be able to quickly delete my current version and install the new one, so I kept the command that does that:

rpm -e sun-rrdtool sun-php52-pgsql sun-wsbase sun-php52-suhosin sun-apache22-sed sun-apache22-jk sun-wsadmin-base sun-apache22 sun-mysql51 sun-php52-mysql sun-jcollectd sun-collectd sun-php52-idn sun-php52-xdebug sun-apache22-perl sun-memcached sun-mysql51lib sun-php52 sun-python26 sun-apache22-security2 sun-apache22-fcgid sun-php52-memcache sun-php52-tcpwrap sun-wsadmin sun-php52-apc sun-squid sun-lighttpd14

 Just wanted to share it in case some of you need it as well :)

Which is the format German use for dates ? dd MMMM ? No I meant the long date format for Spanish.... And what about the French one !? And are the month name starting with an uppercase letter in Spanish ?

All those little questions can quickly become problematic to answer since there are always some little differences between the languages.

I found this page very helpful: http://www.sql-und-xml.de/server-daten/culture-info/

It is in German, but even for non-German speakers it is quite east to understand. The list of languages is really complete, and there is a lot of information. On little minus, not always the same info is shown for different languages... But that's only a little drawback comparing to how helpful it can be !!!

So to our answer our questions:
- German format for dates: dd.MM.yyyy
- Spanish format for long dates: dddd, dd' de 'MMMM' de 'yyyy
- French format for long dates: dddd d MMMM yyyy
- Spanish month names: lowercase (enero, febrero, marzo, abril, mayo, junio, julio, agosto, septiembre, octubre, noviembre, diciembre)

Easy hum ? :)

 

The title is quite self-explaining ! KDE is now available on OpenSolaris thanks the hard work of Pavel (you know him from this blog), and Honza Hnatek. More details on http://www.genunix.org/,  from Thur Aug 06 2009:

KDE on OpenSolaris has always been popular - but Suns' decision to go with Gnome left the KDE community to fend for themselves - which they have done with aplomb! Today we are pleased to support the OpenSolaris K Desktop Environment Project and make available the Korona live DVD distribution, based on OpenSolaris 2009.06, which boots right into KDE version 4.3 RC3. After downloading, please verify the checksums. Project Korona details are available here. Many thanks to Pavel Heimlich (aka hajma) for his help with getting this content to Genunix.Org!
Please provide your feedback to the project authors. Remember - it's always nice to get a "Thank You" from a stranger.

Sorry for microblogging, I just have to point at Ludo's new entry concerning i18n collation matching rules (making sure a search for "Helene" will find "Hélène") in the just released OpenDS 2.0, since it's something very related to us.

OpenDS 2.0 is here! The second version of the opensource directory server OpenDS and his brother with paid support Sun OpenDS Standard Edition brings new GUI, separation of user and administration operations, and many new features and performance improvements. From the l10n point of view the most important is the support for RFC 4518 (i18n string matching). The amount of english strings was huge and OpenDS 2.0 is translated into german, french, spanish, japanese and simplified chinese; plus we still keep the partial korean and traditional chinese translations from the previous version. It's important to note that some of the translation was contributed by members of the community through CTI. The Help and error messages are left in english, but if we see an interest there, it may change in the next version.

SUN MICROSYSTEMS ANNOUNCES STOCKHOLDER APPROVAL OF ORACLE MERGER AGREEMENT

SANTA CLARA, CA July 16, 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) announced that at a special meeting of stockholders held on July 16, 2009, its stockholders adopted the merger agreement entered into with Oracle Corporation, under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. Approximately 62% of the shares of Sun common stock outstanding as of the record date for the meeting voted to adopt the agreement.

The transaction remains subject to regulatory approvals and other closing conditions. For more information regarding the proposed transaction, please visit www.sun.com/oracle.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

How to video for creating a Fedlet for .NET in OpenSSO.

At least that's something we won't have difficulties to localized... :)

http://blogs.sun.com/raskin/entry/opensso_enterprise_fedlet_for_net

To get a complete picture of how anti-spam should be setup in  a Comms deployment (in conjunction with convergence), read this:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommSuite/Integrating+Spam+and+Virus+Filtering+Programs+Into+Messaging+Server