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Information on the Standard Protocol and Tips on Installing Suite 7

Sun Java Communications Suite 7 is the latest release of Sun’s communications and collaboration solution. As reported back in September, a multitude of new features and capabilities have been added. One of these additions is Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV) - Sun’s preferred calendaring protocol. A Sun blog explains the evolution of CalDAV and the importance in using a standard protocol, while another provides tips on the installation process of Communications Suite 7 itself.

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New Features for Messaging Server, Instant Messaging, Sun Convergence

The Sun Java Communications Suite is a communications and collaboration solution. It delivers email, calendaring, and real-time collaboration functionality for service providers and large organizations worldwide. It provides an extensible, standards-based development platform, with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability. The latest release is version 6 update 2, which is now available for download.

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Behind the Scenes for Update 2

Communications Suite 6 Update 2 brings many changes and new features on the horizon - everything from virtualization to mail, messaging, administrator access, express communications and more. Beta versions will be released by the Calendar Server (CalDAV server) and the indexing and Search Service.

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Expands Offering to Include Identity, SOA/BI, and Open Source Components

Sun Java Enterprise System (ES) delivers an integrated enterprise services software system that is designed, developed, and tested to provide a consistent experience to IT and business users. Java ES 6 is the latest release, offering more products, compatibility testing, and interoperability testing than Java ES 5. It also employs the installers of its constituent products instead of a single-host installer for more flexibility in setting up enterprise-level deployments.

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Adds Binary Logging and OpenSolaris 2008.11 Support

This is a full multi-language product installation to Web Server 7.0. Update 5 includes all the enhancements and features from the Updates 1 through 4 releases and now it adds binary logging, OpenSolaris 2008.11 support, and performance and stability improvements. All users of Java System Web Server 7.0 and any updates are encouraged to upgrade.

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Synchronize Contact and Calendar Data on Mobile Devices with Sun Communication Suite Servers

There is now a media kit for Sun Java Mobile Communication 1.0 that will enable users of leading edge phones to synchronize in real time over-the-air with calendar and contact data stored on Sun Communication Suite servers. This solution expands Sun’s client spectrum from desktop and webtop to mobile devices. SyncML devices can be configured to accept push updates, and users can manually “pull” the updates from the server as well as send local changes back to the servers.

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New Enhancements, Features, and Products Added

The recent release of Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) 6 Update 1 brought with it many new features and enhancements, including platform-level enhancements, product/component-level enhancements, and the addition of the Sun Intelligent Event Processor and Sun Data Mashup Engine. Java CAPS provides a standards-based, open, extensible platform for developing software infrastructures using a service-oriented architecture approach.

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The Sun Java Real-Time System 2.0 (Java RTS) and the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) have been selected as the software development platform for ITT Corporation’s Eglin Control and Signal Processing Upgrade (CSPU) program.

The Sun Java Real-Time System, a high-level development platform for creating applications that require unprecedented execution predictability, will enable ITT to run the Eglin Space Surveillance Radar (FPS-85), which schedules and tracks catalogued space objects.

Sun Java RTS addresses the issues of latency and unpredictable temporal performance of Java applications and is fully compliant with the industry standard Real-Time Specification for Java and with Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE). It enables hard, soft and non-real-time functions to be combined in one system, while keeping critical latencies as low as 20 microseconds.

The upcoming 2.1 release of Java RTS, (beta version expected in this month), will be available on leading mainstream real-time Linux distributions from Red Hat and Novell.

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