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Sun ONE Application Server 7, Standard Edition Installation Guide |
About This GuideThis section describes the contents of Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) Application Server 7 Installation Guide. This preface contains the following sections:
This Installation Guide describes how to install Sun ONE Application Server by user role. Within each section are instructions for installing via the graphical interface, command line, or using silent mode.
This manual is intended for system administrators, network administrators, evaluators, application server administrators, web developers, and software developers who want to install Sun ONE Application Server.
Note Sun ONE Application Server 7, Platform Edition is automatically installed with Solaris 9. (See the Sun ONE Application Server Release Notes for details about which versions of Solaris 9 include the application server.)
Users of Solaris 9 bundled should read Documentation Conventions, then proceed to Post-installation Tasks before reading the Sun ONE Application Server 7 Getting Started Guide and Administrator's Guide for information about configuring and using the product.
How This Guide is Organized
The following sections are included in this guide:
- Preparing to Install provides an overview of the minimum requirements, and steps to be taken prior to installing Sun ONE Application Server.
- Installing for Evaluation contains the quick installation procedures for both the Windows and Solaris platforms. This option allows users to rapidly install the Sun ONE Application Server for evaluation purposes.
- Installing for Development and Operations describes how to install the non-evaluation version of Sun ONE Application Server for development and operations on Windows and UNIX® platforms.
- Post-installation Tasks describes tasks you should perform after installing Sun ONE Application Server, including plugin installation information and how to create a domain.
- Troubleshooting describes tasks you should perform after installing Sun ONE Application Server, including plugin installation information and how to create a domain.
- Licensing Information provides information about application server licensing, upgrading your license, and licensing commands.
- Certified Servers and Browsers points to a list of which components are compatible with Sun ONE Application Server, including version numbers.
Using the Documentation
The Sun ONE Application Server manuals are available as online files in Portable Document Format (PDF) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) formats, at:
The following table lists tasks and concepts described in the Sun ONE Application Server manuals. The left column lists the tasks and concepts, and the right column lists the corresponding manuals.
Documentation Conventions
This section describes the types of conventions used throughout this guide:
General Conventions
The following general conventions are used in this guide:
- File and directory paths are given in UNIX® format (with forward slashes separating directory names). For Windows versions, the directory paths are the same, except that backslashes are used to separate directories.
- URLs are given in the format:
http://server.domain/path/file.html
In these URLs, server is the server name where applications are run; domain is your Internet domain name; path is the server's directory structure; and file is an individual filename. Italic items in URLs are placeholders.
- Font conventions include:
The monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, API and language elements (such as function names and class names), file names, path names, directory names, and HTML tags.
Italic type is used for code variables.
Italic type is also used for book titles, emphasis, variables and placeholders, and words used in the literal sense.
Bold type is used as either a paragraph lead-in or to indicate words used in the literal sense.
- Installation root directories for most platforms are indicated by install_dir in this document. Exceptions are noted in Conventions Referring to Directories.
By default, the location of install_dir on most platforms is:
Solaris 8 non-package-based evaluation installations:
user's home directory/sun/appserver7
Solaris unbundled, package-based installations:
/opt/SUNWappserver7
Windows, all installations:
C:\Sun\AppServer7
For the platforms listed above, default_config_dir and install_config_dir are identical to install_dir. See Conventions Referring to Directories for exceptions and additional information.
- Instance root directories are indicated by instance_dir in this document, which is an abbreviation for the following:
default_config_dir/domains/domain/instance
- UNIX-specific descriptions throughout this manual apply to the Linux operating system as well, except where Linux is specifically mentioned.
Conventions Referring to Directories
By default, when using the Solaris 8 and 9 package-based installation and the Solaris 9 bundled installation, the application server files are spread across several root directories. These directories are described in this section.
- For Solaris 9 bundled installations, this guide uses the following document conventions to correspond to the various default installation directories provided:
install_dir refers to /usr/appserver/, which contains the static portion of the installation image. All utilities, executable files, and libraries that make up the application server reside in this location.
default_config_dir refers to /var/appserver/domains, which is the default location for any domains that are created.
install_config_dir refers to /etc/appserver/, which contains installation-wide configuration information such as licenses and the master list of administrative domains configured for this installation.
- For Solaris 8 and 9 package-based, non-evaluation, unbundled installations, this guide uses the following document conventions to correspond to the various default installation directories provided:
install_dir refers to /opt/SUNWappserver7, which contains the static portion of the installation image. All utilities, executable files, and libraries that make up the application server reside in this location.
default_config_dir refers to /var/opt/SUNWappserver7/domainswhich is the default location for any domains that are created.
install_config_dir refers to /etc/opt/SUNWappserver7/, which contains installation-wide configuration information such as licenses and the master list of administrative domains configured for this installation.
Product Support
If you have problems with your system, contact customer support using one of the following mechanisms:
- The online support web site at:
- The telephone dispatch number associated with your maintenance contract
Please have the following information available prior to contacting support. This helps to ensure that our support staff can best assist you in resolving problems:
- Description of the problem, including the situation where the problem occurs and its impact on your operation
- Machine type, operating system version, and product version, including any patches and other software that might be affecting the problem
- Detailed steps on the methods you have used to reproduce the problem
- Any error logs or core dumps