Preface

Welcome to Sun Java^TM Communications Suite. The Sun Java Communications Suite delivers industry-leading email, calendaring and real-time collaboration functionality for service providers and large organizations worldwide. The suite provides an extensible, standards-based development platform, offering improved performance, reliability and scalability at a lower total cost of ownership. This guide provides demos that enable you to use, learn about, and evaluate the Sun Java Communications Suite software.

Who Should Use This Book

This guide is intended for any evaluator, system administrator, or installation technician who wants to evaluate the services delivered by Sun Java Communications Suite.

Before You Read This Book

To use this guide, you need an evaluation system that has Communications Suite software installed. See the document titled Deployment Example: Sun Java Communications Suite 5 on a Single Host for instructions on how to build a complete test system before using this guide.

What This Book Covers

This document complements the single host installation document and is meant to assist you in using and evaluating the platform once it has been installed. This document provides demos organized by Communications Suite component product area. Within these areas, several features are presented. A complete list of component areas and features is provided below.

• Communications Express overview

• Messaging demo:

  • HTML editor

  • Spelling check

  • Advanced search

  • Advanced folder topics

  • Options and filters

• Calendaring demo:

  • User interface layout

  • Calendar views (month, week, day, and so forth)

  • Viewing other calendars

  • Calendar subscription and creation/ownership/permissions/time zones

  • Calendar groups (personal enterprise/service provider)

  • Event creation/group scheduling

  • Event/Invitations view

  • Searching (calendars and events within calendars)

  • New task creation

  • Import/export

  • Options/time zones

• Address Book demo:

  • Integration between Address Book and Mail/Calendar

  • Address Book management

  • Quick Address Book creation

• Connector for Microsoft Outlook interoperability demo:

  • Calendar drag and drop

  • Mail compose and view

  • Address Book creation

  • Return to Communications Express

• Instant Messaging demo:

  • Contacts and contact groups

  • Chat with online buddy

  • Multimedia chat

  • Multiple simultaneous chat sessions

  • Invite others to chat

  • Alerts and polls

  • Conference room management

  • Moderating a conference room

  • Access and privacy filters

  • API filters

  • Access Manager provisioning and filtering

  • Archiving Instant Messaging

  • HTTP proxy

• Delegated Administration demo:

  • Creating domains

  • Creating users

Related Books

The URL for all documentation about Sun Java Communications Suite is:

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/sj.comm.suite#hic

Typographic Conventions

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

Table P–1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface	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	A placeholder to be replaced 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 (note that some emphasized items appear bold online)	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows default system prompts and superuser prompts.

Table P–2 Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell on UNIX and Linux systems	machine_name%
C shell superuser on UNIX and Linux systems	machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell on UNIX and Linux systems	$
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser on UNIX and Linux systems	#
Microsoft Windows command line	C:\

Symbol Conventions

The following table explains symbols that might be used in this book.

Table P–3 Symbol Conventions

Symbol	Description	Example	Meaning
[ ]	Contains optional arguments and command options.	ls [-l]	The -l option is not required.
{ | }	Contains a set of choices for a required command option.	-d {y|n}	The -d option requires that you use either the y argument or the n argument.
${ }	Indicates a variable reference.	${com.sun.javaRoot}	References the value of the com.sun.javaRoot variable.
-	Joins simultaneous multiple keystrokes.	Control-A	Press the Control key while you press the A key.
+	Joins consecutive multiple keystrokes.	Ctrl+A+N	Press the Control key, release it, and then press the subsequent keys.
->	Indicates menu item selection in a graphical user interface.	File -> New -> Templates	From the File menu, choose New. From the New submenu, choose Templates.

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