Who Should Use This Guide

The intended audience for this guide is the person who develops, assembles, and deploys Java™ 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)-supported web applications in a corporate enterprise.

This guide assumes you are familiar with the following topics:

• The J2EE specification

• HTML

• The Java™ programming language

• Java APIs as defined in the Java™ Servlet, JavaServer Pages™ (JSP™), and Java™ DataBase Connectivity (JDBC™) specifications

• Structured database query languages such as SQL

• Relational database concepts

• Software development processes