Preface


The iPlanet Application Server for Tuxedo Developer's Guide explains how to write J2EE compliant Applications for accessing BEA Tuxedo system services from the web.

This preface contains the following sections:

• About this Guide

• What's in This Guide

• What you Should Know

• Typographic Conventions

• User Roles

About this Guide

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This guide describes how to write how to write J2EE compliant Applications for accessing BEA Tuxedo system services from the web.

What's in This Guide

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The following table provides a quick overview of what's in this guide.

Chapter	Description
Chapter 1 "Basic Connector Concepts"	Describes concepts you should be familiar with before you set up the Tuxedo Enterprise Connector or use the API in servlets or Enterprise JavaBeans.
Chapter 2 "Programming for Tuxedo"	Describes the procedure for calling the Tuxedo services in EJB/Servlets using the UIF programming model. Describes how to use the management console to view and change your iPlanet Application Server 6.0 for BEA Tuxedo configuration.

What you Should Know

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This guide assumes that you are familiar with the following topics:

• iPlanet Application Server 6.0 programming concepts

• The Internet and World Wide Web

• BEA Tuxedo system overview programming concepts

• Java 2 Enterprise Edition APIs (EJB, JSP, Servlets)

Typographic 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 are used instead of backslashes to separate directories.

This guide uses URLs of the form:

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

In these URLs, server is the name of 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. Italic items in URLs are place holders.

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 place holders, and words used in the literal sense.

User Roles

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People with different skill sets are typically involved with the set up of iPlanet Application Server 6.0, Enterprise Connector for Tuxedo:

System Administrator	Installs Tuxedo/WS client and iPlanet Application Server 6.0, Enterprise Connector for Tuxedo.
Systems or Business Analyst	Uses the Tuxedo Data Mining utility to define the Tuxedo services that will be available through iPlanet Application Server 6.0, Enterprise Connector for Tuxedo. Uses the Management Console to specify configuration, levels of security, the end users that have access to specific kinds of data, and performance characteristics, such as pooling.
Applications Programmer	Writes J2EE compliant applications (comprising of Servlets, Enterprise JavaBeans and Java Server Pages) using iPlanet Application Builder or other J2EE tool. These applications call the UIF APIs to access the backend services. Uses the Repository Browser to determine the available Tuxedo services that he can call, the data types and access methods for these services.