About This Book


This book is a starting point for developers who need information about using the various APIs and programming technologies that are supported by iPlanet^TM Web Server, FastTrack Edition 4.1.

This book summarizes each of the APIs and programming technologies, and tells you where to find more information. In general, each API or programming technology is documented in a separate programmer's guide, with the exception of the API for defining customized server-parsed tags, which is discussed in Chapter 3 "Server-Parsed HTML Tags" in this book.

iPlanet Web Server, FastTrack Edition Overview

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iPlanet Web Server, FastTrack Edition was designed for developing and testing Java applications and deploying low traffic web sites. Because it shares a common code base with iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition, applications developed for it can be run on the Enterprise Edition without changes.

Enterprise Edition features that are absent or limited in the FastTrack Edition and relevant to this manual are as follows:

• Only five concurrent threads are supported.

• Only five virtual servers are supported (Enterprise Edition supports 256).

• SSL encryption level is only 56-bit.

• Multiprocess mode has been disabled. Therefore, process failover on Unix is not an option, and servlets and JSPs do not run in multiprocess mode.

• The JavaScript environment is not included, therefore there is no LiveWire native database access.

For a full description of the iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition, see:

http://www.iplanet.com/products/infrastructure/web_servers/index.html


Book Summary

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This book has the following chapters:

• Chapter 1 "Overview"

  This chapter discusses the changes in the APIs that are provided with the server from version 3.x to 4.1. It also summarizes the various APIs and programming technologies supported by the server and tells you where to look for more information.

• Chapter 2 "Configuration Files"

  This chapter summarizes the configuration files that the iPlanet Web Server uses.

• Chapter 3 "Server-Parsed HTML Tags"

  This chapter discusses how to use server-parsed tags, lists the standard ones, and explains how to define your own.

• Chapter 4 "NSAPI Changes"

  This chapter discusses the changes to NSAPI in iPlanet Web Server 4.x.

  
  

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  Note	Throughout this manual, all Unix-specific descriptions apply to the Linux operating system as well, except where Linux is specifically mentioned.

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