About This Book


This book discusses how to enable and install Java servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) in iPlanet^TM Web Server, Enterprise Edition 6.0.

This book has the following chapters and appendices:

• Chapter 1 "Servlets and JavaServer Pages"

  This chapter introduces web applications, servlets, and JavaServer Pages.

• Chapter 2 "Web Applications"

  This chapter discusses the structure of web applications and how to deploy them in iPlanet Web Server 6.0. It also lists example web applications and describes the web-apps.xml file, which configures web applications for virtual servers in iPlanet Web Server 6.0.

• Chapter 3 "Using Servlets"

  This chapter discusses how to enable and install servlets in iPlanet Web Server 6.0.

• Chapter 4 "Using JavaServer Pages"

  This chapter discusses how to enable and install JavaServer Pages in iPlanet Web Server 6.0, including how to install the JDK.

• Chapter 5 "Debugging Servlets and JSPs"

  This chapter discusses how to debug servlets and JSPs, and includes a section on debugging using Forte for Java.

• Chapter 6 "Session Managers"

  This chapter discusses the session managers provided with iPlanet Web Server and explains how to customize session behavior to suit your own needs.

• Chapter 7 "API Clarifications"

  This chapter discusses methods in the Servlets API that behave marginally differently in iPlanet Web Server than specified in the Sun Microsystems' Servlets API documentation or where the behavior documented by Sun Microsystems is ambiguous.

• Chapter 8 "Legacy Servlet and JSP Configuration"

  This chapter discusses how to configure the default virtual server as in iPlanet Web Server 4.x, and the servlets.properties, rules.properties, and contexts.properties files.

• Appendix A "Servlet Settings in magnus.conf and obj.conf"

  This appendix discusses how the configuration file obj.conf changes depending on the settings for servlets and JSP.

• Appendix B "Converting SSJS Applications"

  This appendix discusses how to convert LiveWire applications to JSPs.

• Appendix C "JVM Configuration"

  This appendix discusses how to manually specify JVM configuration information.

• Appendix D "Remote Servlet Profiling"

  This appendix discusses how to enable remote profiling for servlets.

  
  

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  Note	Throughout this manual, all Unix-specific descriptions apply to the Linux operating system as well, except where Linux is specifically mentioned.

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