In fact the book uses 2.0 which is incorporated in J2EE 1.3
But 1.4 works fine, you just need to beware that the screens for the admin console and deploytool have a different layout and logic (some things are on different screens or different locations on screens).
The steps to get a clien app working are also slightly different, I explained those a while ago in another
thread.
1.Add three Java archives (JARs) to your class path in the lib directory of Application Server's root installation directory: j2ee.jar, appserv-rt.jar, and appserv-admin.jar.
2.Set the values for the Java virtual machine startup options, as follows:
jvmarg value = "-Dorg.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialHost=${ORBhost}"
jvmarg value = "-Dorg.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialPort=${ORBport}"
where ORBhost is Application Server's host name and ORBport is the ORB port number, whose default is 3700 for the default instance. You can obtain that information from the domain.xml file on the remote system. For details on that file, see Chapter 1 in Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.1 Administration Reference.
Here is an example of the compilation command line (all on one line):
java -classpath.;c:\Sun\AppServer.ib\j2ee.jar;c:\Sun\AppServer.ib\appservrt.jar;c:\Sun\AppServer.ib\appserv-admin.jar-Dorg.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialHost=localhost-Dorg.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialPort=3700 MEJBStandaloneClient ejb/mgmt/MEJB
the latest download includes appserver 8.2 which works the same.
