This book contains information about configuring and running EAServer.
This book is for anyone responsible for configuring the EAServer runtime environment, or for creating and deploying packages and components on EAServer.
Chapter 1, “Getting Started,” contains instructions for starting the preconfigured server, connecting to EAServer Manager, and changing the administration password.
Chapter 2, “Sybase Central Overview,” describes the graphical user interface tool, Sybase Central, and how to connect to the EAServer Manager plug-in, and the Certificates folder, which is used to manage the EAServer certificate database.
Chapter 3, “Creating and Configuring Servers,” contains information about configuring the EAServer runtime environment, including:
Creating servers
Setting server properties
Setting HTTP properties
Chapter 4, “Database Access,” describes how to configure connection caches, XA resources, J2EE connectors, and transaction control.
Chapter 5, “Naming Services,” explains how to use EAServer naming services to locate objects—such as packages, components, and servers—anywhere on the network.
Chapter 6, “Clusters and Synchronization,” contains information about creating a cluster of servers, which provides high availability for EAServer services and components, and synchronizing repositories from a primary server within a cluster to other clustered servers, which keeps all of the servers within the cluster up to date.
Chapter 7, “Load Balancing, Failover, and Component Availability,” explains how to load balance between a cluster of servers and how to configure and implement component failover.
Chapter 8, “Setting up the Message Service,” describes how to set up the message service properties and add the message service parts that enable you to publish, send, and receive messages.
Chapter 9, “Importing and Exporting Application Components,” explains how to deploy packages and components, Web applications, J2EE applications, J2EE connectors, and application clients.
Chapter 10, “Using Repository Versioning” explains how to save numbered versions of EAServer’s repository, which stores configuration and implementation files for entities such as components, Web applications, JSPs, and Java servlets.
Chapter 11, “Runtime Monitoring,” describes how to use the File Viewer, Runtime Monitor, and the OTS Transaction Monitor to track EAServer’s performance and statistics.
Chapter 12, “Using jagtool and jagant,” contains information about the command-line tools that allow you to automate some of EAServer’s development and deployment tasks.
Chapter 13, “Using Systems Management” describes the EAServer systems management functionality—based on the JMX agent management framework—including how to use the Web console to view the status of services and agents, and how to monitor events. It also explains how the Systems Management framework allows SNMP clients to view information about underlying system status using standard SNMP protocols.
Appendix A, “Using EJB 1.0 JAR Support,” describes EAServer Manager’s support for EJB 1.0 JAR files.
Appendix B, “Repository Properties Reference,” describes the EAServer repository properties.
Core EAServer documentation The core EAServer documents are available in HTML format in your EAServer software installation, and in PDF and DynaText format on the Technical Library CD.
What’s New in EAServer summarizes new functionality in this version.
The EAServer Cookbook contains tutorials and explains how to use the sample applications included with your EAServer software.
The EAServer Feature Guide explains application server concepts and architecture, such as supported component models, network protocols, server-managed transactions, and Web applications.
The EAServer System Administration Guide (this book) explains how to:
Start the preconfigured Jaguar server and manage it with the EAServer Manager plug-in for Sybase Central™
Create, configure, and start new application servers
Define connection caches
Create clusters of application servers to host load-balanced and highly available components and Web applications
Monitor servers and application components
Automate administration and monitoring tasks with command line tools or the Repository API
The EAServer Programmer’s Guide explains how to:
Create, deploy, and configure components and component-based applications
Create, deploy, and configure Web applications, Java servlets, and JavaServer Pages
Use the industry-standard CORBA and Java APIs supported by EAServer
The EAServer Web Services Toolkit User’s Guide describes Web services support in EAServer, including:
Support for standard Web services protocols such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and Uniform Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI)
Administration tools for deployment and creation of new Web services, WSDL document creation, UDDI registration, and SOAP management
The EAServer Security Administration and Programming Guide explains how to:
Understand the EAServer security architecture
Configure role-based security for components and Web applications
Configure SSL certificate-based security for client connections using the Security Manager plug-in for Sybase Central
Implement custom security services for authentication, authorization, and role membership evaluation
Implement secure HTTP and IIOP client applications
Deploy client applications that connect through Internet proxies and firewalls
The EAServer Performance and Tuning Guide describes how to tune your server and application settings for best performance.
The EAServer API Reference Manual contains reference pages for proprietary EAServer Java classes, ActiveX interfaces, and C routines.
The EAServer Troubleshooting Guide describes procedures for troubleshooting problems that EAServer users may encounter. This document is available only online; see the EAServer Troubleshooting Guide.
Message Bridge for Java™ Message Bridge for Java simplifies the parsing and formatting of structured documents in Java applications. Message Bridge allows you to define structures in XML or other formats, and generates Java classes to parse and build documents and messages that follow the format. The Message Bridge for Java User's Guide describes how to use the Message Bridge tools and runtime APIs. This document is included in PDF and DynaText format on your EAServer Technical Library CD.
Adaptive Server Anywhere documents EAServer includes a limited-license version of Adaptive Server Anywhere for use in running the samples and tutorials included with EAServer. Adaptive Server Anywhere documents are available on the Sybase Web site.
jConnect for JDBC documents EAServer includes the jConnect™ for JDBC™ driver to allow JDBC access to Sybase database servers and gateways. The Programmer’s Reference jConnect for JDBC is available on the Sybase Web site.
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EAServer has been tested for compliance with U.S. government Section 508 Accessibility requirements. The online help for this product is also provided in HTML, JavaHelp, and Eclipse help formats, which you can navigate using a screen reader.
EAServer Manager supports working without a mouse. For more information, see “Keyboard navigation”.
The WST plug-in for Eclipse supports accessibility features for those that cannot use a mouse, are visually impaired or have other special needs. For information about these features refer to Eclipse help:
Start Eclipse
Select Help | Help Contents
Enter Accessibility in the Search dialog box
Select Accessible user interfaces or Accessibility features for Eclipse
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for optimal use. Some screen readers pronounce text based on its
case; for example, they pronounce ALL UPPERCASE TEXT as initials,
and MixedCase Text as words. You might find it helpful to configure
your tool to announce syntax conventions. Consult the documentation
for your tool.
For additional information about how Sybase supports accessibility, see Sybase Accessibility. The Sybase Accessibility site includes links to information on Section 508 and W3C standards.
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