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Tuesday Jun 30, 2009

OpenSSO Agent 3.0 for Apache HTTP Server 2.0.x is released :

Download : http://www.sun.com/download/index.jsp?cat=Identity%20Management&tab=3&subcat=Policy%20Agents

Docs : http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-7584

Monday Jun 29, 2009

Some might have met this issue in the past: 7937 -  asadmin not working after running install in ES

CLI now works in after installing GlassFish in a Spanish environment. There were an easy workaround to install GlassFish in English, but it's you would need to first figure it out, uninstall, install again... It's not better !

Wednesday Jun 24, 2009

Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1 Patch 3 has been released to SunSolve and is available for downloads.

Patches 126356 through 126359 and 140504 are available on http://sunsolve.sun.com.

Latest Revisions:
126356-03 Sparc
126357-03 x86
126358-03 Linux
126359-03 Windows
140504-03 WAR file This patch addresses several security bugs reported.

Monday Jun 15, 2009

Do you use OpenDS, Glassfish, Directory Server Enterprise Edition or other Java applications on german, french or spanish Microsoft Windows and see the accentuated characters like ùûüÿàâäçéèêëïîñóôöœßÙÛÜŸÄÀÂÇÉÈÊËÏÎŒÑÖÓÔ garbled in the command line interface? Here's why and how to fix it:[Read More]

Tuesday Jun 09, 2009

As it has been announced some time ago, GlassFish version 3 is going to be localized with the help of GlassFish community. Everybody can join and contribute to the translation. This is done via an online tool called CTI (https://cti.sunvirtuallab.com/community/). The only things you need to be able to join this project are to speak English + 1 more language (e.g. your native one) and to create an account in CTI. Than you can start translating GlassFish to actually any language of the world (although there are several preferred ones, but any language is welcome! :)).

What can be very interesting for all participants are prizes that you can win, if you become one of the top translation contributors! Check it out at
http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=V3EAL10nProgram , where you can also find many additional information on this project.

Hope you became interested and will join us! :)

Note: Sun employees are excluded from the prize competition.

Monday Jun 01, 2009

Today I did quite a lot of work on my Solaris 10u7 Virtual Image. I wanted to be safe and use the screenshot functionality to save it.

I already had a screenshot done, so I just did another one:

VBoxManage snapshot JesSol10u7 take test02 -desc "this is the 2nd screenshot, testing purposes"

OK good. I then wanted to try out and see the if the screenshot worked well by restoring it: few modification on the image -> Google, "VBoxManage snapshots restore select" => http://linux.com/news/enterprise/systems-management/8224-secrets-for-controlling-virtualbox-from-the-command-line

There I found what I wanted: "With a stable snapshot in hand, go ahead and play with the system. If you get in trouble and your machine won't boot or starts behaving abnormally, you can revert to the snapshot of the stable machine. To do this, first power off the VM with VBoxManage controlvm "Fedora" poweroff, then revert to last snapshot with VBoxManage snapshot "Fedora" discardcurrent -state. If you have multiple snapshots, you can revert to the last but one snapshot with the -all switch instead of -state."

Ohh, what is this "-all" option ? Going back not to the last screenshot but to the pre-last one ? Interesting... OK ! Let's give it a try, restore the 1st screenshot, and then I'll restore the 2nd one...

VBoxManage snapshot JesSol10u7 discardcurrent -all

Wrong ! At least wrong for what I wanted to do: the 1st screenshot got well restore, but the 2nd one disappeared !! Oh no, all the work I specifically saved lost ! Grrrrr...

Well, that's it, those VirtualBox screenshots do not save the state of the machine at some point, but the differences between two states. The advantage is that screenshots take less place, but you the different screenshots becomes inter-related... If you "go back" of 2 screenshots, you can not go back anymore to the screenshot you skipped... At least that's what I understood.

So just be aware of it when you're using the "-all" option !