Preface

This Services Guide describes the services provided by Oracle9iAS Containers for J2EE.

This preface contains these topics:

• Intended Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Organization

• Related Documentation

• Conventions

Intended Audience

This book was written for developers familiar with the J2EE architecture who want to understand Oracle's implementation of J2EE Services.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle Corporation is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For additional information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

JAWS, a Windows screen reader, may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, JAWS may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle Corporation does not own or control. Oracle Corporation neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

Organization

This document contains:

• Chapter 1, "Introduction"

• Chapter 2, "Java Naming and Directory Interface"

• Chapter 3, "Remote Method Invocation"

• Chapter 4, "Overview of JAAS in Oracle 9iAS"

• Chapter 5, "Quick Start JAAS Provider Demo"

• Chapter 6, "Integrating the JAAS Provider with Java2 Applications"

• Chapter 7, "Managing the JAAS Provider"

• Chapter 8, "Developing Secure J2SE Applications"

• Chapter 9, "Developing Secure J2EE Applications".

• Chapter 10, "Java Transaction API"

• Chapter 11, "Java Message Service"

• Chapter 12, "Java Connector Architecture"

• Chapter 13, "Working With Java Object Cache"

• Chapter 14, "Oracle HTTPS for Client Connections"

• Chapter 15, "Data Sources"

• Appendix A, "JAAS Provider APIs"

• Appendix B, "JAAS Provider Standards and Samples"

• Appendix C, "Third-Party Licenses"

Related Documentation

See the following additional OC4J documents available from the Oracle Java Platform group:

• Oracle9iAS Containers for J2EE User's Guide

  This book provides some overview and general information for OC4J; primer chapters for servlets, JSP pages, and EJBs; and general configuration and deployment instructions.

• Oracle9iAS Containers for J2EE Support for JavaServer Pages Reference

  This book provides information for JSP developers who want to run their pages in OC4J. It includes a general overview of JSP standards and programming considerations, as well as discussion of Oracle value-added features and steps for getting started in the OC4J environment.

• Oracle9iAS Containers for J2EE JSP Tag Libraries and Utilities Reference

  This book provides conceptual information and detailed syntax and usage information for tag libraries, JavaBeans, and other Java utilities provided with OC4J.

• Oracle9iAS Containers for J2EE Servlet Developer's Guide

  This book provides information for servlet developers regarding use of servlets and the servlet container in OC4J. It also documents relevant OC4J configuration files.

• Oracle9iAS Containers for J2EE Enterprise JavaBeans Developer's Guide and Reference

  This book provides information about the EJB implementation and EJB container in OC4J.

Also available from the Oracle Java Platform group:

• Oracle9i JDBC Developer's Guide and Reference

• Oracle9i SQLJ Developer's Guide and Reference

• Oracle9i JPublisher User's Guide

• Oracle9i Java Stored Procedures Developer's Guide

The following documents are available from the Oracle9i Application Server group:

• Oracle9i Application Server Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide

• Oracle HTTP Server Administration Guide

• Oracle9i Application Server Performance Guide

• Oracle9i Application Server Globalization Support Guide

• Oracle Web Cache Administration and Deployment Guide

• Oracle9i Application Server: Migrating from Oracle9i Application Server 1.x

The following are available from the JDeveloper group:

• Oracle JDeveloper online help

• Oracle JDeveloper documentation on the Oracle Technology Network:

  http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev/content.html
  
  

The following documents from the Oracle Server Technologies group may also contain information of interest:

• Oracle9i Application Developer's Guide - XML

• Oracle9i Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals

• Oracle9i Supplied Java Packages Reference

• Oracle9i Supplied PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference

• PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference

• Oracle9i SQL Reference

• Oracle Net Services Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Advanced Security Administrator's Guide

• Oracle9i Database Reference

• Oracle9i Database Error Messages

For information about Oracle9iAS Personalization, which is the foundation of the Personalization tag library, you can refer to the following documents from the Oracle9iAS Personalization group:

• Oracle9iAS Personalization Administrator's Guide

• Oracle9iAS Personalization Recommendation Engine API Programmer's Guide

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The following Oracle Technology Network (OTN) resources are available for further information about OC4J:

• OTN Web site for OC4J:

  http://otn.oracle.com/tech/java/oc4j/content.html
  
  

• OTN OC4J discussion forums, accessible through the following address:

  http://www.oracle.com/forums/forum.jsp?id=486963
  
  

Conventions

This book generally uses UNIX syntax for file paths and shell variables. In most cases file names and directory names are the same for Windows NT, unless otherwise noted. The notation $ORACLE_HOME indicates the full path of the Oracle home directory. It is equivalent functionally to the Windows NT environment variable %ORACLE_HOME%, though of course the Oracle installation paths are different between NT and UNIX.

This Guide uses the following additional conventions.

Convention	Meaning
italicized regular text	Italicized regular text is used for emphasis or to indicate a term that is being defined or will be defined shortly.
. . .	Horizontal ellipsis points in sample code indicate the omission of a statement or statements or part of a statement. This is done when you would normally expect additional statements or code to appear, but such statements or code would not be related to the example.
code text	Code text (Courier font) within regular text indicates class names, object names, method names, variable names, Java types, Oracle data types, file names, URL or URI fragments, and directory names.
%	At the beginning of a command, indicates an operating system shell prompt.
$	At the beginning of a command, indicates an Oracle JVM session shell prompt.
SQL>	At the beginning of a command, indicates a SQL*Plus prompt.