Connecting the dots with Solaris and middleware In the middle

Updated March 9, 2009

The Update Center 2 Toolkit project is demonstrating how the Image Packaging System, also known as the pkg(5) System, can deliver the following features for multi-platform layered applications:

• Multi-OS platform packaging of packages and updates
  
• Pre-installed installation images
• Ongoing installation image management
  
• Network repository-based delivery of add-ons and updates 
• Desktop notification of updates and new add-ons
  

This article describes the results of the first of several experiments intended to demonstrate how projects' build environments can be enhanced to deliver pkg(5)-based distributions. In this article we address the first stage of an experiment based on the popular OpenDS project.[Read More]