Before You Read This Book

Readers should be familiar with the following components and concepts:

• Access Manager technical concepts, as described in the Sun Java System Access Manager 7 2005Q4 Technical Overview.

• Deployment platform: Solaris^TM or Linux operating system.

• Access Manager Web container: Sun Java System Application Server, Sun Java System Web Server, BEA WebLogic, or IBM WebSphere Application Server.

• Technical concepts: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Java^TM technology, JavaServer Pages^TM (JSP) technology, HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), HyperText Markup Language (HTML), and eXtensible Markup Language (XML).