Erin Mulder has been working with Java since its inception. In recent years, she has helped deliver many successful Java/J2EE applications, including real-time energy usage visualization, network management for video-on-demand servers, financial market analysis, federal government accounting, and contracts management. She uses a combination of open-source and commercial tools, and specializes in making them work well together. Erin has also been a technical editor for several publications and has presented on a variety of topics at Java Users Groups and the JavaOne conference.

• Ch. 1--Overview of Features, Versions, and Releases Ch. 2--Developing with Oracle 10g AS Ch. 3--OC4J Installation and Runtime Behavior Ch. 4--General Server Configuration Ch. 5--Configuring JNDI and JDBC Services Ch. 6--Configuring Java Message Service Ch. 7--Security Ch. 8--Using JavaMail and Java APis for XML Ch. 9--J2EE Application Deployment Ch. 10--Web Applications Ch. 11--Enterprise JavaBeans Ch. 12--J2EE Connectors Ch. 13--Configuring Web Services Ch. 14--Application Clients Ch. 15--Application and Deployment Topologies Ch. 16--Installation and Administration Ch. 17--Configuring J2EE Services Ch. 18--Deploying Applications Ch. 19--Configuring Web Caching Ch. 20--Configuring Enterprise Security Ch. 21--Configuring Clustering and Failover Appendix A--Server Configuration Files and Document Type Declaration Appendix B--Deployment Descriptors and Document Type Declaration Appendix C--Command-Line Utility Usage Appendix D--Debugging Tips Index

This book is based on the very latest version of Oracle's fully J2EE-certified Application Server (previously called Oracle9iAS). Oracle Corp. is aggressively attacking this market with a new lost-cost version of the server and a program to move BEA customers onto Oracle free of charge (see http://theregister.co.uk/content/53/30031.html). Adoption interest is growing rapidly amidst favorable reports regarding performance and reliability.