Orion documentation index

This is the main documentation index for the Orion Application Server.

Installation
Overviews
Configuration
Debugging
Examples
Tutorials
Orion Application Server configuration files
Deployment Settings
J2EE Deployment files
API:s

1 Installation

      Installation Guide - The installation of the Orion Application Server is very easy. Here is a step by step guide to install, start and make sure it's working. Advanded users can use the expert guide instead.

2 Overviews

      Distribution Overview - This article describes the files distributed with the Orion Application Server.

      J2EE Overview - In J2EE and in Orion, the Application concept is very central, and this document describes what it is and what this means.

      Overview - The Orion documentation contains several different parts. This overview contains some info on its own but also many references to local and external documentation

      Tools Overview - Orion comes with a number of tools. This article describe which these are and how they are started.

3 Configuration

      Application Context state replication - This article describes what Application context state replication is and how to set it up.

      Access log format - This article explains how to specify a certain access log format.

      Application Deployment - This article explains how to deploy an existing Application manually, through the Console and through the admin.jar to the Orion Application Server.

      Automatic generation of unique primary keys - This article describes how to automatically generate unique primary keys for your EJB Entities.

      Client-module Deployment - This article explains how to deploy an standalone Client-module to the Orion Application Server.

      Connector-module Deployment - This article explains how to deploy an standalone Connector-module to the Orion Application Server.

      Clustering - This article describes the available clustering features for the Orion Application Server.

      Database schema configuration - This article described how to set up a database schema in order to adjust the autogenerated SQL written during deployment.

      DataSource configuration - This article described how to configure a DataSource for the Orion Application Server either using a real JDBC 2.0 DataSource or by using Orion's DataSource emulation driver.

      Development Mode - This article explains how to run a Web-module in development mode in order to compile Servlets and debug JSP pages.

      EJB state replication - This article describes what EJB state replication is and how to set it up.

      EJB-module deployment - This article explains how to deploy an EJB-module to the Orion Application Server.

      HTTP state replication - This article explains what HTTP state replication is and how to set it up.

      Orion prioprietary EJB 1.1 OR mapping - This article describes how to Use Orion's proprietary OR-mapping for pre EJB 2.0 entity beans.

      Remote Access - This article explains how to access remote EJB layers in different configurations using the Orion Application Server.

      Resource Providers - This article explains what an Resource-Provider is, how to connfigure it and shows sample usage with Resource-Providers such as SwiftMQ, MQ Series or SonicMQ with an Application deployed on the Orion Application Server.

      RMI Configuration - This article explains system wide RMI configuration for the Orion Application Server. It contains details about how to configure Remote Servers to communicate to and how to configure a Server to be accessible.

      RMI HTTP-tunneling - This article describes how to setup RMI HTTP-tunneling.

      Setting up SSL and HTTPS - This article will give you pointers on how to enable communication over the Secure Socket Layer and how to enable secure HTTP connections.

      Configuring Groups - This article describes what Groups are and how they are normally configured with the default UserManager.

      Configuring Roles - This article describes what Roles are and how they are normally configured and referenced in a J2EE Application module.

      Configuring Users - This article describes what Users are and how they are normally configured in the Orion Application Server

      Load Distribution - This article describes Load Distribution and how to set it up.

      Mapping Users to Groups - This article describes how Users are mapped to Groups using the default UserManager.

      Mapping Roles to Group and Users - This article describes how Roles are mapped to Groups and Users in the Orion Application Server.

      Virtual hosting - This article describes how to setup virtual hosting.

      Web-module binding - This article explains how to bind an archived or unarchived Web-module to an existing Site on an Orion Application Server, manually or by usage of the Console on the Orion Application Server.

      Web-module deployment - This article explains how to deploy a Web-module to the Orion Application Server.

4 Debugging

5 Examples

6 Tutorials

      Beginners Guide - This article describes some basic actions for first-time users.

      GUI Tools tutorial - This tutorial goes through the basic functions available to you when using the GUI Tools shipped with Orion Application Server.

      The Taglibs Tutorial - This tutorial teaches you the basic of creating, describing, packaging and deploying custom Tags for your JSP applications, as defined in the JSP 1.1 specification.

      The Filters Tutorial - This tutorial teaches you how to build Filters for your web-applications, as defined in the Servlet 2.3 specification.

      The Orion Primer - This tutorial shows you a fast, easy and sensible way of writing and deploying a simple Enterpise JavaBean manually.

      The Orion CMP Primer - This tutorial will show you how to write a Container Managed Entity Bean as well as an HTML page and a JSP that you can use to access the entity bean.

7 Orion Application Server configuration files

      server.xml - contains the configuration for the application-server.

      web-site.xml - contains the configuration for a website.

      principals.xml - the location of user and group configuration when using the default XMLUserManager.

      data-sources.xml - contains configuration for the data sources used along with an optional reference to a database schema that describes configuration for a specific DataSource type.

      database-schema.xml - describes configuration for a specific DataSource type.

      jms.xml - contains configuration for the Java Messaging Service subsystem.

      rmi.xml - contains configuration for Orion's Remote Method Invocation system.

      load-balancer.xml - used to configure the load balancer without using the command like options.

8 Deployment Settings

9 J2EE Deployment files

      application.xml - the deployment file for a J2EE application.

      ejb-jar.xml - the deployment file for a J2EE EJB-module.

      web.xml - the deployment file for a J2EE Web-module.

      application-client.xml - the deployment file for a J2EE application-client module.

      ra.xml - the deployment file for a J2EE Connector-module.

10 API:s

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