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JAIN SLEE 1.1 - What’s New

27 Aug 08

In July JAIN SLEE 1.1 final release was officially announced. The 1.1 version defines the connection between the SLEE container and external resources by standardizing resource adapters architecture and relevant APIs. Resource adapters are entities that encapsulate the specific logic of protocol stack or other event based resource and export its functionality through a generic interfaces. In fact standardization of resource adapters was the primary focus of this release. The major advantage of this is that now resource adapters are fully portable across different JSLEE 1.1 implementations.

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Google Calendar API Overview, Part II

28 Jul 08

(previous: part I)

Retrieve Calendars

Google Calendar defines three types of calendars: primary, secondary and imported. Primary is the calendar that is created when the user is signed up for the Google Calendar service. This calendar can not be deleted. Secondary calendars are all the other calendars that the user creates manually. This type of calendar can be created and deleted. The third type – imported calendars, are calendars for which the user is subscribed. These are calendars created by other users.

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Introduction to IPv6

14 Jul 08

Taking into consideration the fact that IPv6 will be announced soon by many government and non-government organizations*, we did a comprehensive study on that matter, and were able to configure and test IPv6 deployments on clients with different OSs, routers and different types of servers. We are lucky to demonstrate you our findings in the attached presentation.

The agenda for the presentation in a brief:

1) The beginning covers theoretical aspects of IPv6 features – address syntax, prefixes, literals; types of IPv6 addresses; Neighbor Discovery basics; IPv6 Address Auto configuration Process & Auto configuration address states etc.

2) The second part of the presentation is practically oriented, with real examples on setups of:

  • Clients - Windows, Linux, MAC OS;
  • Servers - DNSsetup, remote authentication server setups (ldap, radius) and remote logging (syslogforwarding, SNMP logging);
  • Router – Router Advertisement for IPv6.

Enjoy :)

* The U.S. Government, for example, has specified that the network backbones of all federal agencies must be capable of deploying IPv6 by 2008 and spent the money to acquire a /16 block (281 trillion subnet addresses) to start the deployment.

source: www.wikipedia.org

View the presentation: Introduction to IPv6 - Power point presentation.