Preface

The Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Technical Overview provides an introduction to Sun Java^TM System Portal Server concepts and components.

Who Should Use This Book

This guide is intended for individuals who are engaged in portal design and planning or who are already working in production environments. These include the following individuals:

System designers and architects
Business managers
Portal Server installers
Portal Server administrators
Engineers configuring Portal Server software

This guide assumes that you are already familiar with the following topics:

General networking concepts
Your operating system
Sun Java System Directory Server
Sun Java System Access Manager
Your web container, such as Sun Java System Application Server or Sun Java System Web Server
Security fundamentals relating to authentication and authorization
Basic administrative procedures for the UNIX® platform
LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol)
Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP)

How This Book Is Organized

This guide is organized into the following chapters:

Chapter 1, “Understanding Portal Server,” provides a conceptual overview of key features of Portal Server.
Chapter 2, “Understanding the Standard Portal Server Desktop,” explains basic information about how the standard Desktop delivers content to end users.
Chapter 3, “Understanding Portal Server Community Features,” describes community features that Portal Server provides for the standard Desktop to enhance the productivity of enterprises and their end users.
Chapter 4, “Understanding the Portal Server Search Server,” provides information about the Portal Server search server robot and taxonomy.
Chapter 5, “Understanding Portal Server Management,” summarizes what options administrators have for managing Portal Server and how administrators use Access Manager to manage tasks that affect how Portal Server services are delivered.
Chapter 6, “Understanding the Portal Server Management Console,” describes the browser interface that Portal Server provides for portal administration and configuration tasks.
Chapter 7, “Understanding Portal Server Reports,” describes how Portal Server provides information about end users, servers, and logging activities and presents details about log files.
Chapter 8, “Tuning Portal Server Performance,” explains the functions of the Portal Server perftune() script.

Related Books

The docs.sun.com^SM web site enables you to access Sun technical documentation online. You can browse the archive or search for a specific book title or subject to obtain more detailed information about topics discussed in this guide.

For access to the documentation for this release of Portal Server, see:

http://docs.sun.com/coll/1552.1

For access to links to commonly referenced information in this release of Portal Server, see the Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Documentation Center on this site.

Searching Sun Product Documentation

Besides searching Sun product documentation from the docs.sun.com web site, you can use a search engine by typing the following syntax in the search field:

search-term site:docs.sun.com

For example, to search for “broker,” type the following:

broker site:docs.sun.com

To include other Sun web sites in your search (for example, java.sun.com, www.sun.com, and developers.sun.com), use sun.com in place of docs.sun.com in the search field.

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Documentation, Support, and Training

Sun Function	URL	Description
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Support and Training	`http://www.sun.com/supportraining/`	Obtain technical support, download patches, and learn about Sun courses

Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic changes that are used in this book.

Table P–1 Typographic Conventions


Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Example
`AaBbCc123`	The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output	Edit your `.login` file. Use `ls -a` to list all files. `machine_name% you have mail.`
`AaBbCc123`	What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output	`machine_name%` `su` `Password:`
`aabbcc123`	Placeholder: replace with a real name or value	The command to remove a file is `rm` `filename`.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. Perform a patch analysis. Do not save the file.

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