Before You Read This Book

You should understand have a general understanding of the following:

• Installing enterprise-level software products

• UNIX operating system concepts

• Client/server programming model

• Availability and clustering concepts

• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

• Java technology

• JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

• Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Application Server can be purchased by itself or as a component of Sun Java Enterprise System (Java ES), a software infrastructure that supports enterprise applications distributed across a network or Internet environment. If you purchased ProductName as a component of Java ES, you should be familiar with the system documentation at http://docs.sun.com/coll/1286.1.