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Solaris OS now includes products from the Java
Enterprise System that you can now choose to install with the
Solaris software. Java Enterprise System offers businesses a
complete set of services to integrate web applications, services,
and legacy applications and provides a common user experience. The
software includes the same language support, consistent
documentation, component standardization, common installer, and
other features to deliver integrated functionality. Products
available include:
- Communication and Collaboration Services:
- Java Enterprise Messaging Server 6.0
- Calendar Server 6.0
- Instant Messaging Server 6.0.1
- Portal Server 6.2, and Secure Remote Access 6.2
- Web and Application Services:
- Application Server 7.0 PE*
- Application Server 7.0 SE*
- Web Server 6.1
- Message Queue 3.0.1 SP2*
- Directory and Identity Services:
- Identity Server 6.1
- Directory Server 5.2
- Directory Proxy Server 5.2
- Availability Services:
- Sun Cluster 3.1
- Sun Cluster Agents 3.1 for selected component products
* These products are available within the Solaris OS. |
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Improvements to Solaris Containers permit
finer grained allocation of resources and resource capping. These
resource pool enhancements regulate the consumption of physical
memory by processes that run in projects with defined resource
caps. The end result is better server consolidation.
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The Secure WAN Boot feature enables secure
booting, patching and software installation over the public
Internet. You can boot and install software over a wide area
network (WAN) by using HTTP. You can use WAN boot with new security
features to protect data confidentiality and installation image
integrity. Remote data centers no longer require leased lines or
other special purpose communication for system management.
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This Solaris release enables you to securely
download Solaris packages and patches that include a digital
signature by using the updated pdgadd and patchadd commands. A
package or a patch with a valid digital signature ensures that the
package or patch has not been modified after the signature was
applied.
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When a Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board is
attached, IKE can offload computation-intensive operations to the
board, thus freeing the operating system for other tasks. IKE can
also use the attached board to store public keys, private keys, and
public certificates. Key storage on a separate piece of hardware
provides additional security.
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The NIS-to-LDAP transition service can be used
to enable a network transition from using NIS to using LDAP as the
primary naming service. By using this transition service,
administrators can utilize the bundled Sun ONE Directory Server,
which works with LDAP naming service clients.
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The NFS client has the following performance
enhancements:
- Restrictions on wire transfer sizes has been relaxed. Now, the
transfer size is based on the capabilities of the underlying
transport. For example, the NFS transfer limit for UDP is still 32
Kbytes. However, TCP is a streaming protocol without the datagram
limits of UDP so the maximum transfer size over TCP has been
increased to 1 Mbyte.
- The NFS client has been modified to permit an application to
issue concurrent writes, as well as concurrent reads and writes, to
a single file. You can enable this functionality on the client by
using the
forcedirectio mount option. Note that unless
this new functionality is enabled, writes to files are
serialized.
- The NFS client no longer uses a large number of UDP ports.
Previously, NFS transfers over UDP used a separate UDP port for
each outstanding request. Now by default, the NFS client uses only
one UDP reserved port. Note that this support is configurable and
that the system can be configured to use more ports. This
capability mirrors the NFS-over-TCP support.
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To improve security with the
sadmind command, the default security level has been
raised to 2 (DES). If you do not require sadmind, comment the entry
out of the inetd.conf file.
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The Solaris Kerberos Key Distribution Center
(KDC) is now based on MIT Kerberos version 1.2.1.
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Users who operate within any Unicode (UTF-8)
locale can now easily and intuitively input characters from Indian
regional languages. Additionally, users who interact with CDE
applications, StarOffice, or Mozilla can more easily interact with
Indian scripts. After selecting the transliteration-based input
method (IM), users can type phonetic equivalents of Indian language
scripts in English. These equivalents are then displayed in the
script that is selected, and are correctly shaped and rendered with
the help of an underlying layout and shaper module.
Transliteration is the most commonly used method to input Indian
languages and this support can greatly enhance the usability of the
eight Indian scripts that are provided in the Solaris OS.
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The Programming Interfaces Guide now includes
a chapter that explains the interfaces that interact with locality
groups (lgroups). These interfaces can be used to help an
application efficiently allocate CPU and memory resources, leading
to improved performance in some systems.
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