[Enterprise Extensions only]

Overview: Installing enterprise services

Enterprise services are a set of components that plug into your existing J2EE environment in order to provide enterprise-class functionality. Enterprise services support a wide range of system configurations that can include EJB servers; CORBA C++ servers; ActiveX clients; third-party ORBs, and so on.

Your Enterprise Edition box contains a CD labelled Enterprise Edition Server and Client. This CD contains the server installation program for one platform (Windows, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, or Linux). This CD also contains client installation programs for all supported platforms (Windows, AIX, and Solaris). HP-UX and Linux are not supported as client platforms in this release.

The Enterprise Edition server is an upgrade to the Advanced Edition server; therefore, you must install the Advanced Edition server as a base before you can install the Enterprise Edition server.

Similarly, you must install the Advanced Edition J2EE client before installing enterprise services on an ActiveX or Java client. (CORBA C++ client support does not depend on Advanced Edition).

The Advanced Edition server and application clients are included as two separate CDs in your Enterprise Edition package.

Note: Because Enterprise Edition is an upgrade to Advanced Edition, all Advanced Edition components are removed when you uninstall Enterprise Edition.

Before proceeding to the installation steps for enterprise services, consider the following:

The steps for installing enterprise services vary according to the role each machine plays in your system configuration. Determine whether your machine plays the role of a Java server; a CORBA C++ server; an ActiveX client; a Java client; or a CORBA C++ client (or multiple roles), then complete the appropriate steps for your machine as listed here:

To install on a Java server...This option includes server-side code for:

  1. Installing the Advanced Edition server base.
  2. Installing Java server support

To install on a CORBA C++ server...

  1. Installing the Advanced Edition server base.
  2. Installing CORBA C++ server support.

To install on an ActiveX client (Windows only)...

  1. Installing the Advanced Edition client base.
  2. Installing ActiveX client support.
  3. Validating the ActiveX client installation.

To install on a Java client...This option includes client-side code for:

  1. Installing the Advanced Edition client base.
  2. Installing Java client support.

To install on a CORBA C++ client...

  1. Installing CORBA C++ client support.

To migrate from a Version 4.0.x, or 4.0.1, installation...

  1. Migrating from a Version 4.0.x installation.