Preface


This chapter describes the contents of iPlanet Application Server Getting Started Guide. It contains the following sections:

• About This Guide

• What You Should Know

• How This Guide is Organized

• Documentation Conventions

About This Guide

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This Getting Started Guide discusses the various features of iPlanet Application Server and how to deploy a sample application. This guide also includes an architectural overview of iPlanet Application Server.

This manual is intended for system administrators, network administrators, evaluators, application server administrators, web developers, and software developers who want to get an understanding of the various tasks and tools available with iPlanet Application Server.

What You Should Know

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Before you begin, you should already be familiar with the following topics:

• Application Servers

• Client/Server programming model

• Internet and World Wide Web

• Windows NT/2000 or Solaris™ operating systems

• Java programming and J2EE

How This Guide is Organized

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This guide is organized as follows:

Chapter 1 "iPlanet Application Server Overview", gives an overview of iPlanet Application Server features and iPlanet Application Server components.

Chapter 2 "Deploying Applications", describes the steps to deploy a sample application to iPlanet Application Server.

Chapter 3 "Administration and Deployment Tools", describes the various tools that are available to administer and deploy applications.

Chapter 4 "Troubleshooting iPlanet Application Server", contains information on common errors and their workarounds.

Chapter 5 "Additional References", contains references to other iPlanet Application Server documentation and resources.

Appendix A "iPlanet Application Server Architecture", describes the J2EE concepts and iPlanet Application Server architecture.

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 forward slashes are used instead of backslashes to separate directories.

This guide uses URLs of the form: http://server.domain/path/file.html, where:

• server is the name of the server where you are running the application.

• domain is your internet domain name.

• path is the directory structure on the server.

• file is an individual filename.

The following table shows the typographic conventions used throughout iPlanet documentation.

Table 1    Typographic Conventions 

Typeface	Meaning	Examples
Monospaced	The names of files, directories, sample code, and code listings; and HTML tags	Open Hello.html file. <HEAD1> creates a top level heading.
Italics	Book titles, variables, other code placeholders, words to be emphasized, and words used in the literal sense	See Chapter 8 of the Getting Started Guide. Enter your UserID. Enter Login in the Name field.
Bold	First appearance of a glossary term in the text	Templates are page outlines.