This Getting Started Guide is intended to be used by first time users of the Sun Open Network Environment (Sun ONE) Application Server 7 product. This guide offers a brief hands on means of gaining familiarity with basic development and administrative facilities of the product. Completion of the exercies in this guide will typically take one to two hours of your time. Prior application server and development experience is not required in order to follow this guide.

The guide first introduces you to the Sun ONE Application Server 7 J2EE[tm] 1.3 compatible application server, then leads you through the configuration of a typical environment. Next, it demonstrates some commonly performed tasks; from basic administrative operations; such as starting and stopping application server instances; to building, deploying and modifying an application. Further tasks explore common administrative activities such as changing the server port number, creating virtual servers, creating application server instances and creating administrative domains.