About This Guide

This guide describes how to create and run Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE™ platform) applications that follow the new open Java standards model for the Java™ Database Connectivity (JDBC™), transaction, Java Naming and Directory Interface™ (JNDI), Java™ Message Service (JMS), and JavaMail™ APIs, on the Sun™ Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) Application Server 7.

This preface contains information about the following topics:

Who Should Use This Guide
Using the Documentation
How This Guide Is Organized
Related Information
Documentation Conventions
Product Support

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Who Should Use This Guide

The intended audience for this guide is the person who develops, assembles, and deploys J2EE applications in a corporate enterprise.

This guide assumes you are familiar with the following topics:

J2EE specification
HTML
Java programming
Java APIs as defined in the Java™ Servlet, JavaServer Pages™ (JSP™), Enterprise JavaBeans™ (EJB™), and JDBC specifications
Structured database query languages such as SQL
Relational database concepts
Software development processes, including debugging and source code control

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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 Technology
Creating clients that access J2EE applications on the Sun ONE Application Server 7	Developer’s Guide to Clients
Creating web services	Developer’s Guide to Web Services
J2EE APIs such as JDBC, transactions, JNDI, JMS, and JavaMail	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. 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. 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 the Sun™ Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) Message Queue software.	The Sun ONE Message Queue documentation at: http://docs.sun.com/ db/prod/s1.s1msgqu#h ic

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How This Guide Is Organized

This guide provides a Sun ONE Application Server environment overview for designing programs, and includes the following topics:

Chapter 1, "Overview of J2EE Features and Services"

This chapter summarizes how to use the JDBC, transaction, JNDI, JMS, and JavaMail APIs with the Sun ONE Application Server.

Chapter 2, "Using the JDBC™ API for Database Access"

This chapter describes in detail how to use the JDBC API with the Sun ONE Application Server.

Chapter 3, "Using the Transaction Service"

This chapter describes in detail how to use transactions with the Sun ONE Application Server.

Chapter 4, "Using the Java Naming and Directory Interface™"

This chapter describes in detail how to use the JNDI API with the Sun ONE Application Server.

Chapter 5, "Using the Java™ Message Service"

This chapter describes in detail how to use the JMS API with the Sun ONE Application Server.

Chapter 6, "Using the JavaMail™ API"

This chapter describes in detail how to use the JavaMail API with the Sun ONE Application Server.

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Related Information

You can find a directory of URLs for the official specifications at install_dir/docs/index.htm. Additionally, the following resources may be helpful:

General J2EE Information:

Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies by Deepak Alur, John Crupi, & Dan Malks, Prentice Hall Publishing

Java Security, by Scott Oaks, O’Reilly Publishing

Programming with the JDBC API:

Database Programming with JDBC and Java, by George Reese, O’Reilly Publishing

JDBC Database Access With Java: A Tutorial and Annotated Reference (Java Series), by Graham Hamilton, Rick Cattell, & Maydene Fisher

JMS Programming Concepts:

Java Message Service by Richard Monson-Haefel, David A. Chappell, and Mike Loukides, O’Reilly Publishing

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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, pathnames, directory names, and HTML tags.
Italic type is used for code variables.
Italic type is also 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.

Note	Forte for Java 4.0 has been renamed to Sun ONE Studio 4 throughout this manual.

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/config, 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/domainswhich is the default location for any domains that are created.
install_config_dir refers to /etc/opt/SUNWappserver7/config, 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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