About This Guide

This Sun™ ONE Application Framework Installation Guide describes the environment required and the steps you need to follow to install the Sun ONE Application Framework within the Sun™ ONE Studio.

This preface addresses the following topics:

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

Who Should Use This Guide

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The intended audience for this guide is the developer who is at least somewhat familiar with building Web applications using existing J2EE Web Technologies (servlets and JSPs).

Using the Documentation

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The Sun ONE Application Framework manuals are available as online files in Portable Document Format (PDF) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) formats, at:

http://www.sun.com/docs

The following Sun ONE Application Framework Documentation Roadmap table lists concepts described in the Sun ONE Application Framework documentation. The left column lists the concepts, and the right column lists the corresponding documents.

For information about	See the following
Late-breaking information about the Sun ONE Application Framework software and documentation	Release Notes
An introduction to the Sun ONE Application Framework Web application and discussion of developmental issues of a J2EE Web application	Sun ONE Application Framework Overview
An introduction to the user of the Sun ONE Application Framework and the Forte tool plugin, with a description of the mechanics and techniques used to build, deploy and test a Web application using this powerful tool	Sun ONE Application Framework Getting Started
A description of the environment and steps required to install the Sun ONE Application Framework within the Sun ONE Studio	Sun ONE Framework Installation Guide
Wizard-based concepts and components	Sun ONE Application Framework Online Help (installed with the product)

How This Guide Is Organized

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This guide contains the following documentation components:

• Install the Software
• Database Connectivity
• Install the Sun ONE Application Framework Software

Related Information

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In addition to the information in the Sun ONE Application Framework documentation collection listed in Using the Documentation, the following resources may be helpful:

• J2EE Specifications

http://java.sun.com/products/

• Enterprise JavaBeans Specification, Version 2.0

http://java.sun.com/products/ejb/docs.html#specs

• General EJB product information:

http://java.sun.com/products/ejb

• Java Software tutorials:

http://java.sun.com/j2ee/docs.html

• Enterprise JavaBeans, by Richard Monson-Haefel, O'Reilly Publishing,
  ISBN 0-596-00226-2

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/entjbeans3/

• Enterprise JavaBeans Design Patterns, ISBN 0-471-20831-0
• Core J2EE Patterns, ISBN 0-13-064884-1

Documentation Conventions

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This section describes the types of conventions used throughout this guide.

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, 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.

Product Support

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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