The Sun Java System Web Server, formerly Netscape Enterprise/SunONE/iPlanet Web Server is the most widely used secure, scalable web tier platform deployed in large-scale enterprises in the financial, telco, travel, sports, and government industries. This versatile server supports Java EE web technologies as well as popular native scripting technologies such as PHP and Ruby. Sun's Web Server is free for development and deployment and has rock solid reputation for production use at popular Internet sites across the globe such as MLB.com, NYTimes.com and GE.com. The sun Java System Web Server 7.0 is the most recent version of the product and represents the most significant technology release to date, as it dramatically improves manageability and security.

This book serves as a bridge to the technology for serious technical users as well as the end users, and in turn help build a larger community. As such, this first edition of Sun Web Server: The Essential Guide, provides Sun Web Server's administrators a handy guide with the day-to-day administrative tasks such as installation, configuration, cluster-management, monitoring, troubleshooting using real world application of the server. This book also serves developers interested in extending the Web Server functionality with a variety of dynamic content technologies including Java EE Servlet, JSP, JSF, AJAX as well popular web tier scripting technologies such as PHP, along with the NSAPI, native API for server extensions. Covering the latest Sun Web Server version 7.0, as well as 6.1, The Essential Guide presents task-oriented administration with numerous clear and concise How To or Cook Book style examples for real-world deployment scenarios such as setting up single-sign on, multi-hosting, secure reverse proxying of application servers as well as Web 2.0 age Wikis and Blogging sites. Additional coverage of developer tools make Sun Web Server: The Essential Guide an indispensable resource for the users of world's most scalable web server.