Preface

This chapter describes the contents of Sun™ Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) Application Server 7 Getting Started Guide.

This preface contains the following sections:

About This Guide
How This Guide is Organized
Using the Documentation
Documentation Conventions
Product Support

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About This Guide

This Getting Started Guide is intended for first-time users of the Sun ONE Application Server. It offers a brief, hands-on means of gaining familiarity with basic development and administrative facilities of the product. Following this guide will typically take one to two hours of your time. Prior application server and development experience are not prerequisites for the exercises in this guide.

The guide first introduces you to the application server, then leads you through the configuration of a typical environment. Next, it describes the basic Evaluation Installation process for users who have not yet installed the product. The guide then demonstrates some commonly performed tasks from basic administrative operations, such as starting and stopping application server instances, to building, deploying and modifying an application. Further tasks explore common administrative activities such as changing the server port number, creating virtual servers, creating application server instances, and creating administrative domains.

See the Sun ONE Application Server 7 documentation collection at http://docs.sun.com for the latest version of this document.

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How This Guide is Organized

The following chapters are included in this guide:

Chapter 1, "Introduction to Sun ONE Application Server 7" provides an overview of the application server.
Chapter 2, "Evaluation Installation of Sun ONE Application Server" contains the quick installation procedures for both the Windows and UNIX^� platforms. This option allows users to rapidly install the Sun ONE Application Server for evaluation purposes.
Chapter 3, "Setting Up Your Environment" describes how to add the application server's bin directory to your PATH environment variable.
Chapter 4, "Starting and Stopping the Application Server" describes how to start the application server environment and verify that it is running properly.
Chapter 5, "Becoming Familiar with the Sample Applications" describes how to build and deploy a basic sample application. After successfully verifying that the application works correctly, you will modify the application and redeploy it.
Chapter 6, "Setting Up Database Connectivity" describes how to define the necessary JDBC-related settings in the application server environment prior to deploying and exercising the sample.
Chapter 7, "Deploying and Running the Sample Application" describes how to use the Ant facility and the sample’s build.xml file to quickly compile the application source code and reassemble the EAR file from scratch, then deploy this newly built EAR file to the application server and exercise the application.
Chapter 8, "Modifying the Sample Application" introduces the dynamic deployment capabilities of the application server and leads you through several practical examples based on the sample application you previously deployed.
Chapter 9, "Exploring the Server Further" leads you through several exercises that demonstrate common administrative activities.
Chapter 10, "Summary and Next Steps" describes the tasks you’ve completed in this guide and the next steps to take in working with the product.

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Using the Documentation

The Sun ONE Application Server manuals are available as online files in Portable Document Format (PDF) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) formats, at:

http://docs.sun.com/

The following table lists tasks and concepts described in the Sun ONE Application Server manuals. The left column lists the tasks and concepts, and the right column lists the corresponding manuals.

Table 1   Sun ONE Application Server Documentation Roadmap 

For information about	See the following
Late-breaking information about the software and the documentation	Release Notes
Supported platforms and environments	Platform Summary
Introduction to the application server, including new features, evaluation installation information, and architectural overview.	Getting Started Guide
Installing Sun ONE Application Server and its various components (sample applications, Administration interface, Sun ONE Message Queue).	Installation Guide
Creating and implementing J2EE applications that follow the open Java standards model on the Sun ONE Application Server 7. Includes general information about application design, developer tools, security, assembly, deployment, debugging, and creating lifecycle modules.	Developer’s Guide
Creating and implementing J2EE applications that follow the open Java standards model for web applications on the Sun ONE Application Server 7. Discusses web application programming concepts and tasks, and provides sample code, implementation tips, and reference material.	Developer’s Guide to Web Applications
Creating and implementing J2EE applications that follow the open Java standards model for enterprise beans on the Sun ONE Application Server 7. Discusses EJB programming concepts and tasks, and provides sample code, implementation tips, and reference material.	Developer’s Guide to Enterprise JavaBeans
Creating Web Services, RMI-IIOP, or other clients that access J2EE applications on the Sun ONE Application Server 7	Developer’s Guide to Clients
J2EE features such as JDBC, JNDI, JTS, JMS, JavaMail, resources, and connectors	Developer’s Guide to J2EE Features and Services
Creating custom NSAPI plugins	Developer’s Guide to NSAPI
Performing the following administration tasks: Using the Administration interface and the command line interface Configuring server preferences Using administrative domains Using server instances Monitoring and logging server activity Configuring the web server plugin Configuring the Java Messaging Service Using J2EE features Configuring support for CORBA-based clients Configuring database connectivity Configuring transaction management Configuring the web container Deploying applications Managing virtual servers	Administrator’s Guide
Editing server configuration files	Administrator’s Configuration File Reference
Configuring and administering security for the Sun ONE Application Server 7 operational environment. Includes information on general security, certificates, and SSL/TLS encryption. Web-core-based security is also addressed.	Administrator’s Guide to Security
Configuring and administering service provider implementation for J2EE CA connectors for the Sun ONE Application Server 7. Includes information about the Administration Tool, DTDs and provides sample XML files.	J2EE CA Service Provider Implementation Administrator’s Guide
Migrating your applications to the new Sun ONE Application Server 7 programming model from the Netscape Application Server version 2.1, including a sample migration of an Online Bank application provided with Sun ONE Application Server	Migration Guide
Using Sun ONE Message Queue.	The Sun ONE Message Queue documentation at: http://docs.sun.com

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Documentation Conventions

This section describes the types of conventions used throughout this guide:

General Conventions
Conventions Referring to Directories

General Conventions

The following general conventions are used in this guide:

File and directory paths are given in UNIX^� format (with forward slashes separating directory names). For Windows versions, the directory paths are the same, except that backslashes are used to separate directories.
URLs are given in the format:

http://server.domain/path/file.html

In these URLs, server is the server name where applications are run; domain is your Internet domain name; path is the server’s directory structure; and file is an individual filename. Italic items in URLs are placeholders.

Font conventions include:
The monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, API and language elements (such as function names and class names), file names, path names, directory names, and HTML tags.
Italic type is used for book titles, emphasis, variables and placeholders, and words used in the literal sense.
Bold type is used as either a paragraph lead-in or to indicate words used in the literal sense.
Installation root directories for most platforms are indicated by install_dir in this document. Exceptions are noted in "Conventions Referring to Directories".

By default, the location of install_dir on most platforms is:

Solaris 8 non-package-based Evaluation installations:

user’s_home_directory/sun/appserver7

Solaris unbundled, non-evaluation installations:

/opt/SUNWappserver7

Windows, all installations:

C:\Sun\AppServer7

For the platforms listed above, default_config_dir and install_config_dir are identical to install_dir. See "Conventions Referring to Directories" for exceptions and additional information.

Instance root directories are indicated by instance_dir in this document, which is an abbreviation for the following:

default_config_dir/domains/domain/instance>

UNIX-specific descriptions throughout this manual apply to the Linux operating system as well, except where Linux is specifically mentioned.

Conventions Referring to Directories

By default, when using the Solaris 8 and 9 package-based installation and the Solaris 9 bundled installation, the application server files are spread across several root directories. These directories are described in this section.

For Solaris 9 bundled installations, this guide uses the following document conventions to correspond to the various default installation directories provided:
install_dir refers to /usr/appserver/, which contains the static portion of the installation image. All utilities, executables, and libraries that make up the application server reside in this location.
default_config_dir refers to /var/appserver/domains, which is the default location for any domains that are created.
install_config_dir refers to /etc/appserver/, which contains installation-wide configuration information such as licenses and the master list of administrative domains configured for this installation.
For Solaris 8 and 9 package-based, non-evaluation, unbundled installations, this guide uses the following document conventions to correspond to the various default installation directories provided:
install_dir refers to /opt/SUNWappserver7, which contains the static portion of the installation image. All utilities, executables, and libraries that make up the application server reside in this location.
default_config_dir refers to /var/opt/SUNWappserver7/domains which is the default location for any domains that are created.
install_config_dir refers to /etc/opt/SUNWappserver7/, which contains installation-wide configuration information such as licenses and the master list of administrative domains configured for this installation.

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Product Support

If you have problems with your system, contact customer support using one of the following mechanisms:

The online support web site at:

http://www.sun.com/supportraining/

The telephone dispatch number associated with your maintenance contract

Please have the following information available prior to contacting support. This helps to ensure that our support staff can best assist you in resolving problems:

Description of the problem, including the situation where the problem occurs and its impact on your operation
Machine type, operating system version, and product version, including any patches and other software that might be affecting the problem
Detailed steps on the methods you have used to reproduce the problem
Any error logs or core dumps

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