About This Book


This book discusses how to enable and install Java servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) in iPlanet^TM Web Server, FastTrack Edition 4.1.

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).

• Multiprocess mode has been disabled. Therefore, servlets and JSPs do not run in multiprocess mode.

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 and appendices:

• Chapter 1 "Using Servlets and JavaServer Pages"

  This chapter discusses how to enable and install servlets and JSPs in iPlanet Web Server 4.1. It explains how to specify settings for servlets and for the JRE and JDK by using the Server Manager interface or by editing configuration files.

• Chapter 2 "Servlet and JSP Examples"

  This chapter discusses example servlets and JSP.

• Appendix A "Session Managers"

  This appendix discusses the session managers provided with iPlanet Web Server and gives an overview of a sample session manager that you can extend to customize session behavior to suit your own needs.

• Appendix B "Servlet Settings in obj.conf"

  This appendix discusses how the configuration file obj.conf changes depending on the settings for servlets and JSP.

• Appendix C "Properties Files"

  This appendix discusses the servlets.properties file, which contains configuration information for servlets, the rules.properties file, which defines virtual paths for servlets, and the contexts.properties file, which defines contexts for servlets.

• Appendix D "JVM Configuration"

  This appendix discusses how to manually specify JVM configuration information.

• Appendix E "Debugging Servlets and JSPs"

  This appendix discusses how to debug servlets and JSPs.

• Appendix F "Remote Servlet Profiling"

  This appendix discusses how to enable remote profiling for servlets.

• Appendix G "API Clarifications"

  This chapter discusses methods in the Servlets API that behave marginally differently in iPlanet Web Server than specified in the Sun Microsystems' Servlets API documentation or where the behavior documented by Sun Microsystems is ambiguous.

  
  

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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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