| J2EE Policy Agents Guide |
About This Guide
SunTM ONE Identity Server Policy Agents, version 2.1, comprise J2EE Policy Agents and Web Policy Agents. This guide offers an introduction to J2EE Policy Agents and describes how to install and configure these agents on supported application servers.
This preface contains the following sections:
What You Are Expected to KnowThis book is considered to be an auxiliary manual in the documentation series provided with Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0 SP1. It’s essential that you understand directory technologies and have some experience with Java, J2EE and XML programming languages. You will get the most out of this guide if you are familiar with directory servers and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Particularly, you should be familiar with Sun ONE Directory Server and the documentation provided with that product.
This guide is intended for use by IT professionals who manage access to their network through Sun ONE servers and services. The functionality contained in Sun ONE Identity Server Policy Agents allow you to protect hosted J2EE applications.
As you try to understand the concepts described in this guide, you should reference the Sun ONE Identity Server Installation and Configuration Guide and the Sun ONE Identity Server Programmer’s Guide.
Sun ONE Identity Server Documentation SetThe Sun ONE Identity Server documentation set contains the following titles:
- Product Brief provides an overview of Sun ONE Identity Server and its features and functions.
- Installation Guide provides details on how to install and deploy Sun ONE Identity Server on Solaris™, Linux and Windows® 2000 systems.
- Administration Guide describes how to use the Sun ONE Identity Server console as well as manage user and service data via the command line.
- Programmer’s Guide documents how to customize an Sun ONE Identity Server system specific to your organization. It also includes instructions on how to augment the application with new services using the public APIs.
- J2EE Policy Agents Guide (this guide) documents how to install and configure a Sun ONE Identity Server J2EE policy agent on a remote server. It also includes troubleshooting information specific to each agent.
- Web Policy Agents Guide describes how to install and configure Sun ONE Identity Server Web Policy Agents on supported web servers.
- Getting Started Guide documents how to use various features of Sun ONE Identity Server to set up a simple organization with identities, policies and roles.
- The Release Notes file gathers an assortment of last-minute information, including a description of what is new in this release, known problems and limitations, installation notes, and how to report problems.
Note
Be sure to check the Sun ONE Identity Server documentation web site for updates to the release notes and for revisions to the guides. They are available at http://docs.sun.com/db/prod/s1idsrv#hic. Updated documents will be marked with a revision date.
Documentation Conventions Used in This ManualIn the Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0 SP1 documentation set (such as this guide) there are certain typographic and terminology conventions used to simplify discussion and to help you better understand the material. These conventions are described below.
Typographic Conventions
This book uses the following typographic conventions:
- Italic type is used within text for book titles, new terminology, emphasis, and words used in the literal sense.
- Monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, API and language elements (such as function names and class names), filenames, pathnames, directory names, HTML tags, and any text that must be typed on the screen.
- Italic serif font is used within code and code fragments to indicate variable placeholders. For example, the following command uses filename as a variable placeholder for an argument to the gunzip command:
gunzip -d filename.tar.gz
Terminology
Below is a list of the general terms that are used in the Sun ONE Identity Server Policy Agent documentation:
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Related InformationIn addition to the documentation provided with Sun ONE Identity Server, there are several other sets of documentation that might be helpful. This section lists these and additional sources of information.
Download Center
Links to download any of Sun’s Sun ONE/iPlanet software are at http://wwws.sun.com/software/download/
Sun ONE Technical Support
Technical Support can be contacted through http://www.sun.com/service/support/software/iplanet/index.html
Professional Services Information
Professional Service can be contacted through http://www.sun.com/service/sunps/iplanet/
Sun Enterprise Services for Solaris Patches And Support
Solaris patches and support can be obtained through
http://www.sun.com/service/Developer Information
Information on Sun ONE Identity Server, LDAP, the Sun ONE Directory Server, and associated technologies can also be found at http://developer.iplanet.com/tech/directory/
