Preface

This book explains how to install Sun™ Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) Integration Server, B2B Edition software (TradingXpert 3.6.2), and this preface contains the following sections:

• Audience for This Guide
• Organization of This Guide
• Conventions
• Other Documentation Resources

Audience for This Guide

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The audience for this guide is ECXpert administrators who wish to install a TradingXpert front end to ECXpert. TradingXpert enables browser-based users to interact with business partners through an ECXpert system.

This guide assumes the reader has a general understanding of ECXpert functions and is familiar with ECXpert administration tasks.

Organization of This Guide

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All users should read the introduction and then the appropriate platform-specific chapter. The following table briefly describes the contents of each chapter:

Table 1    Book Contents 

Chapter	Description
Chapter 1 "Introduction"	Explains the TradingXpert software dependencies, what the installer does, and where TradingXpert software modules are installed.
Chapter 2 "Solaris Installation"	Describes installation of TradingXpert software on the Solaris platform, including any pre-installation and post-installation configuration tasks that have to be performed.
Chapter 3 "Windows Installation"	Describes installation of TradingXpert software on the Windows platform, including any pre-installation and post-installation configuration tasks that have to be performed.
Chapter 4 "Testing Your TradingXpert Installation"	Explains how to test your TradingXpert installation using an example test scenario.

Conventions

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This section provides information about the conventions used in this document.

Text Conventions

Table 2    Document Conventions 

Format	Description
italics	Italicized text represents a placeholder. Substitute an appropriate clause or value where you see italic text. Italicized text is also used to designate a document title, for emphasis, or for a word or phrase being introduced.
monospace	Monospace text represents example code, commands that you enter on the command line, directory, file, or path names, error message text, class names, method names (including all elements in the signature), package names, reserved words, and URL's.
[]	Square brackets to indicate optional values in a command line syntax statement.
ALL CAPS	Text in all capitals represents file system types (GIF, TXT, HTML and so forth), environment variables (IMQ_HOME), or acronyms (TradingXpert, JSP).
Key+Key	Simultaneous keystrokes are joined with a plus sign: Ctrl+A means press both keys simultaneously.
Key-Key	Consecutive keystrokes are joined with a hyphen: Esc-S means press the Esc key, release it, then press the S key.

Directory Variable Conventions

TradingXpert documentation makes use of two directory variables whose values depend on platform and on the version of application server in which TradingXpert is deployed. Table 3 describes these variables and summarizes how they are used.

Table 3    TradingXpert Directory Variables 

Variable	Description
BDGHOME	This is an ECXpert environment variable that points to the location of the ECXpert installed software. BDGHOME = Root_ECX_Install/NS-apps/ECXpert where Root_ECX_Install is the root installation directory of ECXpert software.
TX_HOME	This is used in TradingXpert documentation to refer to the root TradingXpert installation directory. The directory depends upon the version of Sun ONE Application Server in which TradingXpert is being deployed. Sun ONE Application Server 6.5: TX_HOME = Root_AS_Install/APPS/FX where Root_AS_Install is the root installation directory of the Application Server 6.5 software. For details of the installed TradingXpert software, see "TradingXpert Directory Structure: Application Server 6.5".
	Sun ONE Application Server 7.0: TX_HOME = arbitrary installation directory You can select any directory in which to install TradingXpert files. For details of the installed TradingXpert software, see "TradingXpert Directory Structure: Application Server 7.0".

In this guide, TX_HOME and BDGHOME are shown without platform-specific environment variable notation or syntax (for example, $BDGHOME on UNIX). All path names use UNIX file separator notation (/).

Other Documentation Resources

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In addition to this guide, TradingXpert provides additional documentation resources.

The TradingXpert Documentation Set

The documents that comprise the TradingXpert documentation set are listed in Table 4 in the order in which you would normally use them.

Table 4    TradingXpert Documentation Set 

Document	Audience	Description
TradingXpert Installation Guide	Administrators	Explains how to install TradingXpert software on Solaris and Windows platforms.
TradingXpert Release Notes	Administrators and developers	Includes descriptions of new features, limitations, and known bugs, as well as technical notes.
TradingXpert Administrator's and Developer's Guide	Users, administrators, and developers	Provides a quick-start tutorial for users, customizing instructions for administrators, and programming information for developers.