There has been no significant change to Sun ONE Calendar, however we are now using it in production and RCM has long since been turned off. Apple iCal can also access Sun ONE using the icald service running on HEIWA.

We’re currently testing Sun ONE Calendar on a Sun Fire V210/Solaris 9 system.

So far, things look good. We’re using v 5.1.1, and it integrates well with the directory server (v 5.1). The installation is straightforward.

Additions:

• I’ve enabled another color palette and set it to default to mimic the red and white scheme of Earlham’s colors.

• I found basic PHP source code from Rutgers to access public calendars in a way that can be used in an Apple iCal subscription. I have translated this to perl and put it in the CGI directory of our main web server.

• A number of sites run Calendar Express behind an SSL connection, the one I found that worked was to put in Pound to handle the SSL proxy, to use an HTTPS URL for the ui.base.url value, and to modify the default.html to include JavaScript that puts out a refresh target for non-https connections:

if ((document.URL=='http://calendar.earlham.edu/') && (!location.search)) {
    document.write("<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; URL=https:/calendar.earlham.edu/\">");
}

• I have a basic perl script that converts Russell Calendar Manager ASCII export data into iCal format for import into Sun ONE. The only thing it does not handle “properly” is multiple attendees to an event: while it lists all attendees as confirmed, it does not enter the event into their calendars (it can’t given the access permissions standard on most people’s calendars).