This book covers many different technologies and uses a number of different examples provided by different vendors. It uses technology available from Apache, IBM, BEA, Sonic Software, Systinet, Phaos, and Sun. In the examples that come with this book, there is a comprehensive set of README documents that outline where the different pieces of software can be downloaded. The README documents also detail the installation and configuration instructions relevant to you.

Examples developed in this book are available from http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javawebserv. The examples are organized by chapter.

Given the speed at which this field is developing, one of the best strategies you can take is to look at vendors’ examples. In the examples archive for this book, we’ve decided to include separate directions with a number of examples from Sonic and BEA’s products. We will add other vendors as we get permission. If you are a vendor and would like to see your examples included in the archive, please contact us.