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Marina Sum's Blog
Running the OpenSolaris OS From a BrowserPosted by marinasum on June 25, 2009 at 01:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)Interested in exploring the capabilities of the OpenSolaris OS? A Sun Learning Services beta program makes it really easy: You can run the OS from a browserwith no downloads or installations, for one hour at a time. Brian Leonard's June 18 posting on the OpenSolaris group blog, The Observatory, has the details, complete with screen shots and important tidbits of information from the launch site. Be sure to have the login credentials of your Sun online account ready. I just tried the steps and everything worked as advertised. Have a whirl yourself? OpenDS and OpenSSO on FISL's Presentation Agenda in Brazil This WeekPosted by marinasum on June 22, 2009 at 01:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)This Friday, June 26, architects Ludo Poitou and Pat Patterson of OpenDS and OpenSSO, respectively, will present at FISL [Forum Internacional Software Livre in Portuguese for International Free Software Forum, "South America's biggest open-source conference," according to Pat], to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Ludo will discuss the topic of scaling identity stores with OpenDS; Pat, OpenSSO's approaches of developing open-source identity services. In addition, on Tuesday, June 23, Pat will lead a session on securing RESTful Web services with OAuth at Javali, also in Porto Alegre. For details, see Ludo's and Pat's postings. OpenDS 2.0.0 Release Candidate 2 ShipsPosted by marinasum on June 15, 2009 at 08:12 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)OpenDS community manager and architect Ludo Poitou has announced the release of OpenDS 2.0.0 Release Candidate 2. Besides bug fixes, the release includes many new capabilities, including enhanced multimaster replication and recurring tasks. OpenDS 2.0 will follow shortly after the testing of RC 2 is complete. Do let the OpenDS team know your take by writing one of the mailing lists or the #opends IRC. Ludo's posting above contains the details. Transcript of OpenSolaris Slashdot ChatPosted by marinasum on June 10, 2009 at 03:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)Have a look at the transcript of the May 28 OpenSolaris live chat, at which several senior OpenSolaris folks answered questions posted by the attendees. Among the questions are
Quite a pool of illuminating Q&As. Catching Up With OpenDS Community Manager at JavaOnePosted by marinasum on June 05, 2009 at 09:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
OpenDS 2.0 An Eye-Opening Talk on UI DesignPosted by marinasum on June 04, 2009 at 09:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)I much enjoyed listening to Ben Galbraith of Mozilla expound on user-interface design at JavaOne yesterday afternoon. Not only is the title, Creating Compelling User Interfaces, eye-catching, the content is well supported by quotations from experts. Technical Session on SOA's Deployment ChallengesPosted by marinasum on June 03, 2009 at 11:29 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)The presentation by eBay distinguished architect Sastry Malladi at JavaOne on Tuesday afternoon illuminated the benefits, misconceptions, and deployment challenges of service-oriented architecture (SOA). He also described how eBay tackles the issues. On Java University at JavaOnePosted by marinasum on June 02, 2009 at 06:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)Java University at 2009 JavaOne was held on Sunday afternoon, May 31, and all day Monday, June 1. Earlier today, I caught up with Joe Boulenouar, senior Java specialist at Sun, and asked him how everything went in those 1-1/2 days. "Wonderfully," Joe beamed. "Impressive signups, enthusiastic students, active participation during class. All extremely gratifying." In particular, he pointed out that the attendees welcomed and appreciated the wide coverage and depth of the courses, which ranged from Java to Java EE to JavaFX, also to SOA to Web 2.0 to Web services to scripting languages, such as JRuby. Drizzle Demo App to Watch for at CommunityOne West and JavaOne Next WeekPosted by marinasum on May 27, 2009 at 06:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)Recently, I caught up with Lee Bieber, a Sun engineering manager in charge of, among other projects, Drizzle, Sun's open-source project for a lightweight, optimized SQL database for cloud and Web applications. He mentioned a demo application being developed by his team to create a highly scalable search engine that retrieves, indexes, and searches for data. The application will be a key demo at the Drizzle and Configuring OpenDS as a User Data Store in OpenSSOPosted by marinasum on May 26, 2009 at 01:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)In recently released OpenSSO Express 7 are several impressive capabilities, including support for OpenDS Standard Edition as a repository for user profiles, authentication data, and policies. You need perform only a few configuration steps, as detailed in a procedural article in the OpenSSO Resource Center. The article also includes several sections of reference information: troubleshooting tips, the OpenSSO features that work with various directory servers, a few policy and interface nuances that might help you determine which user data store to use. Have a look. Ian Murdock on Operating Systems As They Relate to DevelopersPosted by marinasum on May 19, 2009 at 04:38 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)In a recent posting, Sun's Ian Murdock shares his take on how operating systems affect application developers' day-to-day tasks. In the case of OpenSolaris, developers would surely welcome the opportunity to take advantage of outstanding capabilities like DTrace and ZFS if they are integrated into the tools for developing applications? OpenSolaris has won many positive reviews since its inception. My best for its continued success in the times ahead. Free Sun Webinar on Directory Services on Wednesday, May 20Posted by marinasum on May 13, 2009 at 03:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)Sun product line manager Nick Wooler will host a free Webinar next Wednesday, May 20 on cost savings and performance enhancements delivered by directory services. See Nick's posting for more specifics. To sign up, complete and send in a short registration form. Near the bottom is a note that, by signing up, you'll receive the replay information. Nice touch! OpenSSO Fedlet Named Best Innovation by European Identity ConferencePosted by marinasum on May 11, 2009 at 10:12 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)As pointed out by Sun's Pat Patterson and Daniel Raskin, OpenSSO's Fedlet won the Best Innovation Award at the recently held European Identity Conference. The Fedlet, in Pat's words, is "a lightweight service-provider implementation of SAML [Security Assertion Markup Language] 2.0" that enables federation for both Java and .NET applications. See more details in my March 29 posting. Pat's posting also includes an interview video, in which he talked about the well-attended OpenSSO Community Day in Munich last week and the impressive contributions of OpenSSO extensions by both Sun and non-Sun folks. He also described the latest OpenSSO capabilities. Sounds like everything is on a roll! Congratulations. Directory Application for iPhonePosted by marinasum on May 06, 2009 at 10:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)In late April, OpenDS community manager Ludo Poitou wrote about the Directory application for his iPhone. The application not only returns search results of corporate directory servers, including Sun Directory Server and OpenDS, but also enables secure email and phone calls to contacts in the iPhone's address book. The configurations, as described in Ludo's posting, are simple to set up. Note that OpenDS, the Sun-sponsored open-source project for the next-generation directory service, is written entirely in the Java language. In a previous posting, I pointed out Ludo's concise USTREAM presentation on OpenDS. Do take a look. Highlights of Java University at 2009 JavaOnePosted by marinasum on May 04, 2009 at 01:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)As in previous years, Java University is offering 2009 JavaOne Conference Pass and Java U Pass holders an impressive array of classes led by experienced and knowledgeable instructors. The classes, due to start on Sunday, May 31, cover numerous topics, including JavaFX, Java EE 5 and 6 and Java ME platforms, JavaServer Faces technology, SOA, Web 2.0, JRuby and Rails, Groovy and Grails, GlassFish, NetBeans, DTrace, cloud computing, and the zembly Project. Visit the OpenSolaris Information Resources WikiPosted by marinasum on April 29, 2009 at 07:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)The OpenSolaris Information Resources wiki well deserves a shout-out. Three major sections at the top link to information for three different audiences: users, system administrators, and developers. You can then drill down and access a valuable pool of referencestips and tricks, tutorials, task lists, forums. Remember that the site is a wiki, hence open to contributions. Just follow the simple steps on the How to Contribute page. To the folks behind the scenes, splendid job! Read Up About LDAP InnovationsPosted by marinasum on April 27, 2009 at 04:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)Felix Gaehtgens's March article on Kuppinger Cole, Innovations in the World of LDAP, that is, the directory-server arena, is well worth a read. It takes you through the early history of Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition (called iPlanet Directory Server before) in 2002 and its evolvement since, with notable enhancements in scalability, performance, replication, reliability, and resilience. You also learn about the mechanics of password storage and the related data migration between servers. How to Federate Google Apps for Single Sign-On With OpenSSO--FastPosted by marinasum on April 23, 2009 at 06:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)Sun's chief identity strategist Daniel Raskin has posted a three-minute video that steps you through the procedure of configuring OpenSSO for single sign-on to Google Apps. Be sure to first download Sun OpenSSO Express 7 and the Google Apps Starter Kit, as pointed out in the posting. The procedure involves only a few point-and-clicks in the GUI along with some data entries and OpenSSO will generate a certificate for you to upload to Google Apps. The final testing step shows how you simply authenticatelog inthrough OpenSSO to access Google Apps. Nice! A Primer on OpenDSPosted by marinasum on April 21, 2009 at 01:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)Interested in what the OpenDS Project is about? Be sure to read the recent interview on DZone with Ludo Poitou, senior staff engineer at Sun and OpenDS community manager. You'll learn about the related standards and specifications, the numerous OpenDS features that serve the enterprise, the background for two directory-server projects at Sun, the database aspect of OpenDS, and other highlights. Note that Sun OpenDS Standard Edition, which is identical to OpenDS, is available as a commercially supported product from Sun. Also, you can grab OpenDS from the OpenSolaris IPS package repositoryeasy as pie. Ludo encourages OpenDS deployers to share their stories. Do participate! Power Features of OpenSolaris OSPosted by marinasum on April 15, 2009 at 05:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)To learn the advanced features of the OpenSolaris OS, such as the ZFS file system, virtualization, and DTrace, turn to a presentation by Sun's Nick Solter and Dave Miner at CommunityOne East in NYC in March. Included are the video and related slides. Solter and Miner are two of three coauthors of a 1,000-page book called OpenSolaris Bible, which has earned a five-star review rating. "This book is written so well that the knowledge simply jumps from the pages and into your brain," wrote the reviewer. That's high praise indeed. Third OpenSSO Community Day: San Francisco, Sunday, May 31Posted by marinasum on April 12, 2009 at 11:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)OpenSSO community manager and Sun principal engineer Pat Patterson has just announced the third OpenSSO Community Day. It'll be held on Sunday, May 31 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA, between 1:00-7:00 p.m. in an unconference format. Attendance is free. Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to learn about the latest in single sign-on, authentication, LDAP, and other Web security-related topics and to connect with the OpenSSO community members. The first OpenSSO Community Day, held in New York City on March 17, was very well attended and received many kudos. See my previous posting for a recap. The second OpenSSO Community Day will take place in Munich on May 5. Stay tuned for the details from Pat and others please. Boot Environments in the OpenSolaris OS: Versatility ExemplifiedPosted by marinasum on April 11, 2009 at 03:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)A March article on Sun Developer Network, Managing Boot Environments With OpenSolaris Package Manager, tells you how to manipulate BEs in the OpenSolaris OS. That is, efficiently and safely install, update, or delete software. How to Make GlassFish Web Space Server Work With OpenSSOPosted by marinasum on April 05, 2009 at 05:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)You can integrate GlassFish Web Space Server, Sun's portal platform, with OpenSSO, a Sun-sponsored open-source project that delivers security for Web applications, single sign-on (SSO), federation, and identity services. In a recent blog, Sun's Rajesh R. tells you how to do that efficiently, complete with an illustration of the deployment and the steps for the related downloads, installations, and configurations. Easy as pie, it looks like. Have a try yourself? White Paper on Sun's Approach to Identity ManagementPosted by marinasum on April 03, 2009 at 10:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)Sun has a practical approach for identity management, as described in a recent white paper (in PDF) on
Reading a high-level writeup like that gives one a wide perspective. I enjoyed it. |
June 2009
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