These release notes contain important information available at the time of version 6.0 SP3 release of iPlanet Application Server, Standard Edition. New features and enhancements, installation notes, known problems, and other late-breaking issues are addressed here. Read this document before you begin using iPlanet Application Server, Standard Edition 6.0, SP3.
These release notes contain the following sections:
The iPlanet Application Server, Standard Edition 6.0, SP3 provides a low-cost entry point for enterprises that want to build web applications using a J2EE compliant application server, but do not require the sophistication of embedded transaction monitors, complex administration tools, and state/session management.
iPlanet Application Server, Standard Edition 6.0, SP3 is a paper license restricted version of iPlanet Application Server, Enterprise Edition 6.0, SP3. iPlanet Application Server, Standard Edition 6.0, SP3 imposes the additional restrictions listed below:
"Licensed Software" means all or any portion of the iPlanet (TM) Application Server, Standard Edition 6.0, Service Pack 3 in binary form (the "Product"), and any other machine readable materials (including, but not limited to, libraries, header files, and data files), additional software, user manuals, programming guides and other documentation provided to you by Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Sun") as part of, or embedded with, the files that comprise the Product.
You may not replicate HttpSession across iPlanet Application Server, Standard Edition 6.0, SP3 instances, or replicate stateful session bean instance data. Clustering is not allowed. Also, the "dsync-distributed" setting is not allowed, and stateful session beans `failover-required' cannot be enabled. (These settings can be found in the iPlanet Application Server, Standard Edition 6.0, SP3 deployment descriptor DTDs.) You may not use the built in Servlet or EJB failover (no distributed /clustered session).
You may use one software plug-in for the web server to communicate with only one Software instance, which means there will be no Load Balancing using the included iWS Plug-in. The iWS plug-in can only be used for request forwarding.
If Software includes either the Netscape or iPlanet Directory Server software bundled or embedded ("DSS"), you may use such DSS for storage of:
Storage of any user information (including, but not limited to contact information and user preferences) except as explicitly provided in this section, or access to DSS from other software products on a stand-alone basis requires purchase of a DSS license.
For detailed information on terms and conditions, please refer to the "Supplemental Terms and Conditions for iPlanet Application Server, Standard Edition 6.0, SP3" included in the "Media and Documentation" package, or the "LICENSE.txt" file displayed during installation.
Your system must meet the following requirements before you can install iPlanet Application Server.
Your Solaris™ system must meet the following requirements before you can install iPlanet Application Server:
On Solaris 2.6, iPlanet Application Server, Enterprise Edition 6.0, SP3 bundles Solaris Production JDK 1.2.2_07 for SPARC. The following patches for JDK 1.2.2_07 must be applied on Solaris 2.6. These patches can be downloaded from the http://sunsolve.sun.com site.
Patch
Patch Description
libaio, libc & watchmalloc patch
For Solaris 8, apply the recommended JDK 1.2.2_07 patches listed on the http://sunsolve.sun.com site.
Patch
Patch Description
Your Microsoft Windows system must meet the following requirements before you can install iPlanet Application Server:
| Note | On a FAT file system, the installer may not calculate the required space correctly and may run out of disk space without warning.
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Thank you for choosing iPlanet Application Server, Standard Edition 6.0, version 6.0 . For installation instructions, please read the Installation Guide for iPlanet Application Server, Enterprise Edition 6.0, SP3 at:
http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/ias.html#sp3
You may purchase an upgrade license when you wish to fully access all of the features available in iPlanet Application Server, Enterprise Edition.
iPlanet Application Server, Standard Edition 6.0, SP3 has limitations with the following:
Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Server SP2 platforms are supported in production and development environments. Note that only iPlanet Application Server, Standard Edition 6.0, SP3 is supported on Windows 2000 platforms. The bundled iPlanet Directory Server 4.13 and iPlanet Web Server 4.1 are not supported by iPlanet Support on Windows 2000 platforms.
iPlanet Application Server, Standard Edition 6.0, SP3 does not support the older APIs and programming models of Netscape Application Server 2.1 and 4.0, and NetDynamics 4.X and 5.X. If you require these application models, you need to migrate to iPlanet Application Server, Enterprise Edition 6.0, SP3, which supports these APIs and is fully compliant with the older programming model to provide a seamless migration.
For full documentation on the covered features of iPlanet Application Server, Standard Edition 6.0, SP3, please refer to iPlanet Application Server, Enterprise Edition 6.0, SP3 documentation at:
http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/ias.html#sp3
If you have problems with iPlanet Application Server, Standard Edition 6.0, , contact iPlanet customer support using one of the following mechanisms:
So that we can best assist you in resolving problems, please have the following information available when you contact support:
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Last Updated September 10, 2001