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How This Book Is Designed
This book is divided into four distinct parts. I'll go over each section
in detail and give you a little background on its purpose and content.
Part I: Planning an Intranet
The first part gives you a little background information on intranets.
Many readers might not be familiar with the term intranet and its
implications. Some of the topics covered in this section are

• What an intranet is
• Why build an intranet
• How Java can be used to enhance an intranet
• Intranet application design considerations
• Developing intranet applications
• Java development environments

After finishing the first part of this book, you should have some good,
solid knowledge about integrating Java applications into your intranet
plans. You will also gain a little insight about developing intranet applications.
Part II: Development Concepts and Environments
This part examines some of the more pressing issues in intranet development
with Java. Areas covered in this section are

• Intranet security
• Database connectivity

Part III: Extending Java for Intranets
This part introduces you to an application framework for building intranet
applications. This framework is called JIF. JIF stands for Java
Intranet Framework. JIF is a made up of several Java packages and is included
on the CD-ROM. You can use JIF to create your own applications, or you
can modify it for your own needs. It's up to you!
This section covers the foundations of a framework and builds upon it.
Before any classes are discussed, however, a model intranet application
is presented. This application becomes the driving force of the class creation
for the rest of this section. It is also the model used for the sample
applications in the next section.
Part IV: Applications Development with JIF
This section presents eight sample intranet applications. These applications
are real-world examples of using Java to create database-aware intranet
applications. The applications presented are

• Employee files
• Benefits maintenance
• Conference room scheduling
• Online in/out board
• Online employee phonebook
• News and announcements
• Product maintenance
• Customer support maintenance

Who Should Read This Book
Although this book is geared toward experienced programmers, beginning
programmers will find it useful as well. However, you should have some
experience with C, C++, or Java. It would help if you had some database
programming experience as well.

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