Who Should Use This Book

This Developer's Guide is intended for use by software developers who create, assemble, and deploy J2EE applications using Sun Java System servers and software. Application Server software developers should already understand the following technologies:

• Java technology

• The Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE platform), version 1.4

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

• Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

• Extensible Markup Language (XML)