Contents

About This Guide

How This Guide is Organized
Using the Documentation
Documentation Conventions

General Conventions
Conventions Referring to Directories

Product Support

Chapter 1

Preparing to Install

Supported Platforms
Required Patches
Other Technical Requirements

All Platforms
Solaris
Windows

Installation Methods

Graphical Interface
Command Line
Silent

Types of Installation

Evaluation
Development and Operations

Installable Components

Sun ONE Application Server
PointBase 4.2
Sample Applications
Administration Client
Sun ONE Message Queue 3.0.1
Sun ONE Studio 4.0, Enterprise Edition for Java
Java 2 Software Development Kit (J2SE) 1.4.0_02

Chapter 2

Installing for Evaluation

What You're Installing
Installing for Evaluation: Interactive Mode
Uninstalling Sun ONE Application Server

Chapter 3

Installing for Development and Operations

What You're Installing
Installing in Interactive Mode
Installing in Silent Mode

Creating the Statefile
Using the Statefile for Silent Installation

Uninstalling the Application Server

Appendix A

Post-installation Tasks

Accessing the Documentation
Starting and Stopping the Server

Using the Command-line Interface

Using start-domain and stop-domain
Using start-instance and stop-instance

Using the Administrative Console
Using the Windows Program Group
Using Windows Services

Creating an Administrative Domain
Installing the Web Proxy Plugin
Installing the Web Services Client
Installing the Sun ONE Studio Plugin
Using the Patch Utility on Windows

Installing Patches
Backing Out of a Patch
Using Other Patch Utilities

Accessing the Sample Applications

Appendix B

Troubleshooting

Forgotten User Name or Password
Forgotten Administration Server Port Number
Inaccessible Port
Could Not Initialize CGI Subsystem

Using the ulimit Command
Increasing System Resources

Leftover Processes, Directories, and Files

UNIX
Windows

Failed Installation of SNMP Subagent

Appendix C

Licensing Information

About Licensing
Types of Licenses

Evaluation
Developer
Platform Edition
Standard Edition

Using the License Commands

Appendix D

Certified Servers and Browsers

Index