Before You Read This Book

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Application Server can be purchased by itself or as a component of Sun Java^TM Enterprise System (Java ES), a software infrastructure that supports enterprise applications distributed across a network or Internet environment. If you purchased Application Server as a component of Java ES, you should be familiar with the system documentation at http://docs.sun.com/coll/1286.1.