Preface

Installing and Getting Started with Standard Edition One covers installation and system requirements, new features in the Oracle Universal Installer, Oracle Application Server concepts that affect installation, installation procedures, administration, configuration, and management tips, as well as troubleshooting tips.

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for users who are comfortable running some system administration operations, such as creating users and groups and adding users to groups.

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Structure

This guide contains the following:

Part I, "Installing Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One"

This part contains overview information about Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One as well as installation and post-installation instructions.

Chapter 1, "Product and Installation Overview"

This chapter provides an overview of the installation steps, as well as an overview of Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One and its components.

Chapter 2, "System and Installation Requirements"

This chapter lists the requirements for installing and running Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One.

Chapter 3, "Installing J2EE and Web Services"

This chapter describes how to install the services provided by J2EE and Web Services.

Chapter 4, "Installing OracleAS Portal"

This chapter describes how to install the services provided by OracleAS Portal.

Chapter 5, "Installation Screens"

This chapter contains screenshots and description for each of the Oracle Universal Installer screens.

Chapter 6, "Post-Installation Tasks"

This chapter describes additional set-up steps that you should do after installation.

Part II, "Getting Started with Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One"

This part provides information on how to get started using and configuring Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One after it has been successfully installed.

Chapter 7, "Getting Started"

This chapter provides tasks for getting familiar with your installation.

Chapter 8, "Using the Administration Tools"

This chapter introduces Web-based and command-line administration tools for managing Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One.

Chapter 9, "Starting and Stopping"

This chapter describes how to start and stop environments, instances, components, and clusters.

Chapter 10, "Changing the HTTP Port and Listener Settings"

This chapter describes how to view and change port numbers.

Chapter 11, "Viewing Log Files"

This chapter describes how to view and manage log files.

Chapter 12, "Changing Network Configurations"

This chapter describes how to change the hostname and IP address of an host.

Chapter 13, "Enabling SSL"

This chapter provides information on enabling Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) in Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One.

Chapter 14, "Backup and Recovery"

This chapter describes how to install, configure, and use the Backup and Recovery Tool.

Part III, "Installing Oracle Application Server Metadata Repository Creation Assistant"

This part contains overview and installation information for Oracle Application Server Metadata Repository Creation Assistant.

Chapter 15, "Oracle Application Server Metadata Repository Creation Assistant Overview and Requirements"

This chapter provides an overview of the Oracle Application Server Metadata Repository Creation Assistant and outlines the system requirements necessary for using this tool.

Chapter 16, "Loading the OracleAS Metadata Repository into an Existing Database"

This chapter describes how to install, or load, the OracleAS Metadata Repository in an existing database.

Chapter 17, "Registering OracleAS Metadata Repository with Oracle Internet Directory"

This chapter describes how to register OracleAS Metadata Repository with Oracle Internet Directory.

Part IV, "Appendixes"

This part contains various appendixes.

Appendix A, "Deinstallation and Reinstallation"

This appendix describes how to remove Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One from your computer.

Appendix B, "Deregistering and Removing OracleAS Metadata Repository"

This appendix describes how to use Oracle Application Server Metadata Repository Creation Assistant to remove OracleAS Metadata Repository tablespaces and schemas from your database and deregister it from Oracle Internet Directory.

Appendix C, "Default Port Numbers"

This appendix lists the port numbers assigned to components by the installer.

Appendix D, "Ports to Open in Firewalls"

This appendix shows the ports that you have to open in a firewall if you are installing and running Oracle Application Server in such environments.

Appendix F, "Installing Java Access Bridge"

This appendix describes how to install the Java Access Bridge, which enables assistive technologies to read Java-based interfaces (such as the installer) running on Windows platforms.

Appendix E, "OracleAS Metadata Repository Schemas"

This appendix provides descriptions of OracleAS Metadata Repository schemas, and lists their tablespaces and datafiles.

Appendix G, "Configuration Assistants"

This appendix describes the configuration assistants run by the installer.

Appendix H, "Troubleshooting"

This appendix describes how to solve problems that might arise during installation and deinstallation.

Conventions

This guide uses the following conventions:

Convention	Meaning
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[ ]	Brackets enclose optional clauses from which you can choose one or none.
. . .	Ellipses indicate that extraneous information have been omitted.

Preface

Intended Audience

Documentation Accessibility

Structure

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Conventions