Sun ONE Application Server 7 Migrating and Redeploying Server Applications Guide |
About This Guide
This Migrating and Redeploying Server Applications Guide describes how J2EE applications are migrated from earlier versions of the Sun ONE Application Server (formerly known as ‘iPlanet Application Server’) to Sun ONE Application Server 7.
In addition, this guide describes how NetDynamics applications and applications from the Netscape Application Server (NAS) are migrated to the Sun ONE Application Server 7.
This manual is intended for system administrators, network administrators, application server administrators and web developers who have an interest in migration issues.
What You Should KnowBefore you begin, you should already be familiar with the following topics:
- HTML
- Application Servers
- Client/Server programming model
- Internet and World Wide Web
- Windows 2000 and/or Solaris operating systems
- Java programming
- Java APIs as defined in specifications for EJBs, Java Server Pages (JSP)
- Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
- Structured database query languages such as SQL
- Relational database concepts
- Software development processes, including debugging and source code control
How This Guide is OrganizedThis guide is organized as follows:
- About Sun ONE Application Server 7 - describes the architecture of the Sun ONE Application Server 7 and the differences between J2EE standards and application components implemented with this version of the Sun ONE Application Server versus previous versions.
- Migration and Redeployment - describes those application components that need to be migrated and why, as well as the redeployment process for migrated applications.
- Migration Considerations and Strategies - describes considerations and strategies for migrating applications from competing platforms and from previous versions of the Sun ONE Application Server. There are also sample migration applications included that provide an end-to-end description of the migration process.
- Automating Migration - describes the available automation tools used to migrate applications from competing platforms and earlier versions of the Sun ONE Application Server.
- Redeploying Migrated Applications - describes how migrated applications are redeployed to the Sun ONE Application Server.
Documentation ConventionsFile and directory paths are given in Windows format (with backslashes separating directory names). For Unix versions, the directory paths are the same, except forward slashes are used instead of backslashes to separate directories.
This guide uses URLs of the form: http://server.domain/path/file.html, where:
The following table shows the typographic conventions used throughout Sun ONE documentation