Rutgers uP3 Testing

Rutgers plans to spend a couple of weeks looking at the recently released uP3 RC1 in the context of what it would take to get it up and running. The plan is to spend a tightly time-boxed iteration from now (12/6) until 12/22 looking at various areas of uP3, and provide feedback to the uP3 team and uPortal community. The hope is to test the existing code and identify any gaps in the core feature-set needed for institutional deployment.

Goals

evaluate current state of uP3 RC1
get a feel for the completeness/coverage of the core feature set
evaluate the ability/difficulty of basic migration/porting tasks
initial performance/scalability benchmarking

uP3 Evaluation Report

uP3-evaluation-report.pdf

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Environment

Current myRutgers

uP 2.5.2+ [local mods]
Tomcat 5.5
JDK 1.5 (32-bit)
Solaris 9
SPARC

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uP3 Test

uP 3.0 RC1
Tomcat 5.5
JDK 1.5 (32-bit)
Solaris 10
AMD Opteron

Middleware

CAS Server 3.0.4+
Oracle 9i
Sun ONE LDAP