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   Adoption interest is growing rapidly amidst favorable reports regarding performance and reliability.

    Deploying J2EE applications and configuring the application server are known to be the most tricky and non-standard elements of J2EE development, and thus they receive scant attention in general J2EE texts. This book provides a focused, no-frills guide to getting J2EE applications up and running on 10G. It covers Oracle's J2EE container, OC4J (available for free for development purposes), in full detail and then moves on to explain how to configure and use the various enterprise-level features that come with the commercial editions.

Chapter 1 Overview of Features, Editions, and Releases
Chapter 2 Developing with Oracle 10g AS
Chapter 3 OC4J Installation and Runtime Behavior
Chapter 4 General Server Configuration
Chapter 5 Configuring JNDI and JDBC Services
Chapter 6 Configuring Java Message Service
Chapter 7 Security
Chapter 8 Using JavaMail and Java APIs for XML
Chapter 9 J2EE Application Deployment
Chapter 10 Web Applications
Etc.