This preface describes the what you can expect to find in this document, and contains the following:

• About This Guide

• What You Should Know

• Typographic Conventions

• User Roles

• Supported Platforms

• System Requirements

About This Guide

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This guide describes the concepts you need to know to use iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for Tuxedo and how to configure and use the components provided with iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for Tuxedo. It describes how to write your servlet or Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) to access a Tuxedo program. It also contains information about the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that you need to use.

What You Should Know

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This guide assumes you are familiar with the following topics:

• iPlanet Application Server Programming Concepts. See iPlanet Application Server Programmer's Guide for more details.

• The Internet and World Wide Web

• Tuxedo Programming Concepts

• Java Programming Language

Documentation Conventions

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File and directory paths are given in Windows format with backslashes separating directory names. For Unix versions, the directory paths are the same, except slashes should be substituted in place of backslashes.

This guide uses URLs of the form:

http://server.domain/path/file.html

In these URLs, server is the name of the server on which you run your application; domain is your Internet domain name; path is the directory structure on the server; and file is an individual filename. Italics items in URLs are placeholders.

This guide uses the following font conventions:

• 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 book titles, emphasis, variables and placeholders, and words used in the literal sense.

How This Guide Is Organized

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This guide is organized into the following chapters:

Chapter 1 "Installation" describes how to install Enterprise Connector for Tuxedo.

Chapter 2 "Configuration" describes how to configure the Enterprise Connector for Tuxedo for use with BEA's Tuxedo system and the concepts you should be familiar with before you set up Enterprise Connector for Tuxedo or use the API in servlets or EJBs. In addition, there is an overview of the Enterprise Connector for Tuxedo with the administrator responsibilities.

Chapter 3 "The Tuxedo Management Console" describes the Enterprise Connector for Tuxedo Management Console and data mining.

Chapter 4 "Tuxedo Sample" describes how to setup and run the provided sample applications.

User Roles

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This section describes the various users roles and their tasks. People with a variety of skills are involved with the setup of iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for Tuxedo. Some of these users are listed below:

System Administrator	This is the person responsible for iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for Tuxedo installation.
Systems or Business Analyst	This person uses the Tuxedo Data Mining Tool to define the Tuxedo services that will be available through iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for Tuxedo. This person uses the Management Console to specify levels of security, which end users have access to specific kinds of data, and performance characteristics such as pooling.
Applications Programmer	This person writes servlets or EJBs that call the UIF API. This person also uses the Repository Browser to determine the available data types and access methods.
Tuxedo Programmer	Writes new Tuxdeo programs that perform advanced communications with iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for Tuxedo or modifies existing programs.

Supported Platforms

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iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for Tuxedo supports:

Vendor	Platform
Microsoft	Windows NT version 4.0 with Service Pack 5
Sun	SPARC running Solaris 2.6

System Requirements

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• iPlanet Application Server Version 6.0

• TUXEDO Version 6.5

• 50MB disk space, 64MB memory minimum, 128MB recommended