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Welcome to Edge Components!

This README for Edge Components applies to the Load Balancer and Caching Proxy components of IBM WebSphere Application Server, Version 7.0

Caching Proxy is not available on:

The following topics are included:

License terms and conditions, notices, and other information

The relevant terms and conditions, notices, and other information are provided in the country-specific license agreement files in the EDGE/platform/plugin/lafiles directory of the installation image for this product. Any non-English version of the license information in the directory is unofficial and is provided to you for your convenience only. The English version of the license files is the official version. Other licensing information and third-party notices appear in the notices, copyright.txt file, and non_IBM_license file in the root directory of the installation image.

Accessing installation documentation

For information on installing this product, go to the installation section of the product documentation that is provided in the EDGE/platform/docs directory.

Accessing the product Web site

To see the most current information about Edge Components, visit the following Web address: 

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/ecinfocenter.html

For the Edge Components information center in all supported languages, visit the following Web address: 

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/topic/com.ibm.websphere.edge.doc/index.jsp

Accessing documentation on the installation image

The following documentation is available when you install the product:

The readme file
This file, the readme.html file in the EDGE/platform/readme directory of the installation image, provides information that includes links to the procedure for installing and using the product.
Help files
The help files provide detailed instructions for completing tasks and specifying settings in the graphical systems management tools. Access the help files by using the help menus, links, or buttons provided in the tool interfaces.
Product documentation
The English version of the product documentation is provided in the docs subdirectory of the product directory.

Accessing the most current Web documentation

For the Information Center for Edge Components in any one of the supported languages, change to the appropriate system locale and visit the following Web address: 

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/topic/com.ibm.websphere.edge.doc/index.jsp

For the entire documentation set for all Edge Components products, including downloadable copies of the information centers and Adobe Acrobat PDF versions of the information, visit the following Web address: 

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/ecinfocenter.html

All of the Edge Components product documentation is in the Version 7.0 information center, including versions of the installed help files.

Accessing last-minute updates, limitations, and known problems

The release notes for Edge Components are available on the product support site as technotes. To see a list of the release notes for Version 7.0, visit the Edge Components support page at the following Web address: 

http://www.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=180&tc=SSEQTP&q=V70RNotes

Trademarks

For trademark attribution statements, visit the IBM Terms of Use Web page at http://www.ibm.com/legal/us/.