About this Guide

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

This preface contains the following sections:

What’s In This Guide
How This Guide is Organized
Using the Documentation
Documentation Conventions
Product Support

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What’s In 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 Sun ONE Application Server, Enterprise Edition features, with an emphasis on demonstrating the load balancing and HTTP session persistence features. Prior application server and development experience are not prerequisites for the exercises in this guide, though you must install the server using the Sun ONE Application Server Installation Guide before starting.

The guide first introduces you to the Sun ONE Application Server, including a brief overview of the clustering, load balancing, and HTTP session persistence features. Next, it steps you through the configuration of an environment for running the sample application in the exercises. It shows you how to deploy a sample application to demonstrate and verify load balancing and session persistence. It contains a list of further areas of investigation, and references to where to find more information.

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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, Enterprise Edition" provides an overview of the product, including a brief introduction to clustering, load balancing, HTTP session persistence, and the high-availability database.
Chapter 2, "Enterprise Features Configuration Tutorial" contains a list of task to do before starting the tutorials, a summary of steps to configure your server to use Enterprise features, and a tutorial on configuring your server to use clusters and HTTP session failover.
Chapter 3, "Cluster JSP Sample Application Tutorial" describes the Cluster JSP application, how to deploy it to a cluster, and how to run it. It describes how you can use this application to verify load balancing and HTTP session persistence.
Chapter 4, "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
Comprehensive, table-based summary of supported hardware, operating system, JDK, and JDBC/RDBMS.	Platform Summary
Sun ONE Application Server 7 overview, including the features available with each product edition.	Product Overview
Diagrams and descriptions of server architecture and the benefits of the Sun ONE Application Server architectural approach.	Server Architecture
New enterprise, developer, and operational features of Sun ONE Application Server 7.	What’s New
How to get started with the Sun ONE Application Server 7 product. Includes a sample application tutorial.	Getting Started Guide
Installing the Sun ONE Application Server software and its components, such as sample applications, the Administration interface, and the high-availability components. Instructions for implementing a basic high-availability configuration are included.	Installation Guide
Evaluating your system needs and enterprise to ensure that you deploy Sun ONE Application Server in a manner that best suits your site. General issues and concerns that you must be aware of when deploying an application server are also discussed.	System Deployment Guide
Best practices for HTTP session availability that application architects and developers can use.	Application Design Guidelines for Storing Session State
Creating and implementing Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE™ platform) applications intended to run on the Sun ONE Application Server 7 that follow the open Java standards model for J2EE components such as servlets, Enterprise JavaBeans™ (EJBs™), and JavaServer Pages™ (JSPs™). Includes general information about application design, developer tools, security, assembly, deployment, debugging, and creating lifecycle modules. A comprehensive Sun ONE Application Server glossary is included.	Developer’s Guide
Creating and implementing J2EE web applications that follow the Java™ Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications on the Sun ONE Application Server 7. Discusses web application programming concepts and tasks, and provides sample code, implementation tips, and reference material. Topics include results caching, JSP precompilation, session management, security, deployment, SHTML, and CGI.	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 Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) programming concepts and tasks, and provides sample code, implementation tips, and reference material. Topics include container-managed persistence, read-only beans, and the XML and DTD files associated with enterprise beans.	Developer’s Guide to Enterprise JavaBeans Technology
Creating Application Client Container (ACC) clients that access J2EE applications on the Sun ONE Application Server 7.	Developer’s Guide to Clients
Creating web services in the Sun ONE Application Server environment.	Developer’s Guide to Web Services
Java™ Database Connectivity (JDBC™), transaction, Java Naming and Directory Interface™ (JNDI), Java™ Message Service (JMS), and JavaMail™ APIs.	Developer’s Guide to J2EE Services and APIs
Creating custom NSAPI plug-ins.	Developer’s Guide to NSAPI
Information and instructions on the configuration, management, and deployment of the Sun ONE Application Server subsystems and components, from both the Administration interface and the command-line interface. Topics include cluster management, the high-availability database, load balancing, and session persistence. A comprehensive Sun ONE Application Server glossary is included.	Administrator’s Guide
Editing Sun ONE Application Server configuration files, such as the server.xml file.	Administrator’s Configuration File Reference
Configuring and administering security for the Sun ONE Application Server operational environment. Includes information on general security, certificates, and SSL/TLS encryption. HTTP server-based security is also addressed.	Administrator’s Guide to Security
Configuring and administering service provider implementation for J2EE™ Connector Architecture (CA) connectors for the Sun ONE Application Server 7. Topics include the Administration Tool, Pooling Monitor, deploying a JCA connector, and sample connectors and sample applications.	J2EE CA Service Provider Implementation Administrator’s Guide
Migrating your applications to the new Sun ONE Application Server 7 programming model, specifically from iPlanet Application Server 6.x and from Netscape Application Server 4.0. Includes a sample migration.	Migrating and Redeploying Server Applications Guide
How and why to tune your Sun ONE Application Server to improve performance.	Performance Tuning Guide
Information on solving Sun ONE Application Server problems.	Troubleshooting Guide
Messages that you may encounter while running Sun ONE Application Server 7. Includes a description of the likely cause and guidelines on how to address the condition that caused the message to be generated.	Error Message Reference
Utility commands available with the Sun ONE Application Server; written in manpage style.	Utility Reference Manual
Using the Sun™ Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) Message Queue software.	The Sun ONE Message Queue documentation at: http://docs.sun.com/db?p=prod/s1.s1msgqu

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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).
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.

Conventions Referring to Directories

By default, the Sun ONE Application Server files are spread across several root directories. These directories are described in this section.

install_dir refers to the directory which contains the static portion of the installation image. All utilities, executables, and libraries that make up the Sun ONE Application Server reside in this location. The default location is /opt/SUNWappserver7.
default_config_dir refers to the directory which is the default location for any domains that are created. The default location is /var/opt/SUNWappserver7/domains.
install_config_dir refers to the directory which contains installation-wide configuration information such as licenses and the master list of administrative domains configured for this installation. The default location /etc/opt/SUNWappserver7.

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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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