Before You Read This Book

Before you read this book, you must be familiar with the following concepts:

• Basic Solaris^TM administration procedures

• Basic UNIX® administration procedures

• LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol)

• Markup languages used to create portal content appropriate for mobile and voice environments, such as HTML, cHTML, and VoiceXML

• Solaris 8 Operating System (SPARC® Platform Edition) or Solaris 9 Operating System (SPARC Platform Edition) or Solaris Operating System (x86 Platform Edition)

• Sun Java System Directory Server (formerly Sun ONE Directory Server)

• Sun Java System Access Manager (formerly Sun ONE Identity Server, and Sun Java System Identity Server)

• Sun Java System Portal Server 7

• Sun Java System Portal Server Secure Remote Access 7

Depending on the Web container that you are using, you should be familiar with one or more of the following:

• Sun Java System Web Server (formerly Sun ONE Web Server)

• Sun Java System Application Server

• BEA WebLogic Server^TM 8.1 SP2/SP4

• IBM WebSphere® 5.1