About This Guide


This J2EE Policy Agent Guide offers an introduction to Sun^TM ONE Identity Server Policy Agent and describes how to install and configure Sun ONE Identity Server Policy Agent on Application Servers.

This preface contains the following sections:

• What You Are Expected to Know

• Documentation Conventions Used in This Manual

• Related Information

What You Are Expected to Know

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

• Application Server

• Sun ONE Identity Server

• Java programming and J2EE

• Windows 2000, Solaris 8, Solaris 9, or HP-UX 11 operating systems

Documentation Conventions Used in This Manual

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There are certain typographic and terminology conventions used to simplify discussion and to help you better understand the material. These conventions are described below.

Typographic Conventions

This book uses the following typographic conventions:

• Italic type is used within text for book titles, new terminology, emphasis, and words used in the literal sense.

• Monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, API and language elements (such as function names and class names), filenames, pathnames, directory names, HTML tags, and any text that must be typed on the screen.

• Italic serif font is used within code and code fragments to indicate variable placeholders. For example, the following command uses filename as a variable placeholder for an argument to the gunzip command:

  gunzip -d filename.tar.gz

Terminology

Below is a list of the general terms that are used in the Sun ONE Identity Server Policy Agent for WebLogic 6.1 SP2 documentation:

• Agent_Install_Dir is a variable placeholder for the directory where you have installed the Sun ONE Identity Server Policy Agent.

• WebLogic_Install_Dir is a variable placeholder for the home directory where you have installed WebLogic Server.

• WAS_root_dir is a variable placeholder for the home directory where you have installed WebSphere Application Server. For example: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer

Related Information

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This section lists additional sources of information.

Sun ONE Identity Server Documentation
You can find Sun ONE products documentation at the following site:

http://docs.sun.com/db/prod/s1idsrv#hic

J2EE Documentation
You can find the J2EE documentation at the following site:

http://java.sun.com/j2ee

WebLogic Server Documentation
You can find the WebLogic Server documentation at the following site:

http://www.bea.com

Sun ONE Products Documentation
You can find Sun ONE products documentation at the following site:

http://docs.sun.com/

Sun ONE Technical Support
You can contact Sun ONE Technical Support through the following location:

http://www.sun.com/service/support/software/iplanet/index.html