Steffo's Echolot

Java Enterprise System 5 is out

Java ES 5 is out! Most exciting things for me in this release

• Directory Server 6 and Directry Proxy/Virtual Directory (which now allows you to aggregate a single view not only from LDAP sources but also from SQL or flat files). Not that this is the first major upgrade of an overall very, very stable and mature product since 2003.
• WebServer 7 comes with Elliptic Curve Cryptography support
• J2EE Application Server 8.2 has zone support
• Identity Manager 7.0 now support SPML 2.0, has a nice integration in NetBeans and includes Identity Auditor
• Access Manager 7.1 now has a simplified single WAR deployment.

It also comes with a better systems management support.

Since Paralles 2.5 is now also officially released, the reduces the amount of beta software on my Mac substantially. Since I work in the identity systems area I haven't tested all of the Java ES components. However, for a PoC/TOI I had 6 instances of Directory Server 6 plus Directory Proxy and MySQL database running in my Solaris 10 Parallels image. No problems apart from the clock issue (which might be a problem with S10U1 and doesn't show up with Update 3 of Solaris 10). All this requires some memory; 2GB seem to be sufficient, and the simple truth "Hubraum ist durch nicht zu ersetzen außer durch noch mehr Hubraum" holds here as well.

Posted at 04:34PM Mar 01, 2007 by steffo in Sun  |  Comments[0]