Introduction

The purpose of this tutorial is to explain how to install, configure and run the JOnAS server. In addition, it explains how to run the examples provided in the JOnAS distribution.

How To Use This Document ?

This introduction gives an overview of JOnAS. For those who want to immediately start using JOnAS without going through the overview, you can go to the chapter Quick Start. Note that the Quick Start chapter requires some skills including downloading and uncompressing an archive or setting environment variables. To learn more about downloading and uncompressing archives read this tutorial beginning with the chapter Getting and Installing The Software.

The chapters Getting and Installing The Software and Configuring Your Environment help you set up all the software needed for a complete J2EE environment including Web, Servlets and EJB servers.

The chapter Getting Started With JOnAS is a quick reference to JOnAS and guides you through the most common tasks you will have to perform.

The remaining chapters are specific to EJB application development. Each chapter treats a different programming concept and illustrates it with a specific example. The Alarm application is a "put it all together" example that gives an overview of a complete application using JOnAS.