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exteNd Professional and Enterprise Suite 5

RELEASE NOTES

 

December 2003

Welcome to Novell® exteNdTM 5. These release notes include the following sections:

Installing exteNd How to prepare for installing Novell exteNd
System requirements Software and hardware needed to run Novell exteNd
What's new New features in this version of Novell exteNd
Known issues Known problems with this version of Novell exteNd

Release note updates   To check for updates to these release notes, click here.

Installing exteNd

For a complete guide on installing exteNd 5, see Installing Novell exteNd in the exteNd 5 Suite help.

System requirements

This section describes the software and hardware needed to run exteNd 5:

Development environment

Topic

What's required

Operating system One of the following:
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows 2000 with Service Pack 1 or higher
  • Windows XP Professional
Minimum RAM (memory) 128 MB (256 MB recommended)
Disk space 820 MB (install may take up to 2.0 GB in temp storage)
Display mode True Color (32-bit), 800 x 600 or higher
Java 2 Runtime Environment JRE 1.4.2_01-b06 (installed automatically)

Server environment

Topic

What's required

Application server

One of the following:

Supported in exteNd 5:

  • Novell exteNd Application Server Version 4.0.1
  • Novell exteNd Application Server Version 5.1
  • BEA WebLogic Server Version 6.1 Service Pack 4 (Enterprise Suite Only)
  • BEA WebLogic Server Version 8.1 Service Pack 1 (Enterprise Suite Only)
  • IBM WebSphere Server Advanced Edition Version 5.0 (Enterprise Suite Only)
  • Jakarta Tomcat Version 4.1
Operating system

One of the following:

Supported in exteNd 5:

  • SuSE Enterprise 8
  • RedHat Advanced Server 2.1  
  • NetWare® 6.5
  • Windows 2000, 2003
  • Solaris 8,9
Database support

One of the following:

Shipping with exteNd 5:

  • MySQL 4.1 (alpha) - For development only. Not supported in production.

Supported by exteNd 5:

  • Oracle 8i and 9i
  • IBM DB2 7.2.4, 8.1
  • Microsoft SQL Server 7.0/2000
  • Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 11.9.2, 12, 12.5
  • Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere 8
LDAP directory (Optional) exteNd Director supports the following:
  • Novell eDirectoryTM 8.6.2, 8.7
  • Novell exteNd LDAP Utility (included) - For development only
Web browser One of the following:
  • For the PAC and Portal tiers:

    • Internet Explorer 5.5 and higher
    • Netscape 7.x
    • Mozilla 1.4.X


  • For the PMC:

    • Internet Explorer 5.5 and higher


What's new

For a summary of the new features in this version of exteNd, see "What's New" in the exteNd DirectorTM help and the exteNd ComposerTM Release Notes.

Known issues

See the individual product release notes for related known issues:

Installation

MySQL known issues

MySQL 4.1 is not supported in production environments at this time. MySQL 4.1 ships with exteNd 5 on Windows, Linux, and Solaris at this time. This software is alpha quality at the time of exteNd 5 ship and is not supported in any production environment. Novell recommends using another commercially available database from the exteNd list of supported database vendors for any production application. Note that MySQL 4.1 for NetWare was not available at the time of the exteNd 5 ship. When MySQL 4.1 becomes stable on all platforms, work will be done to certify exteNd 5 against the database and add it to the exteNd list of supported databases for production.

 

 

 


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