Appendix D.4 Main functionality changes in 08-50

Organization of this subsection
(1) Enhancing ease of installation and construction
(2) Supporting standard and existing functionality
(3) Maintaining and improving reliability
(4) Maintaining and improving operability
(5) Other purposes

(1) Enhancing ease of installation and construction

The following table describes the items that are changed with the purpose of enhancing ease of installation and construction:

Table D-16 Changes with the purpose of enhancing ease of installation and construction

ItemOverview of changesReference manualReference
Changing the tags with mandatory specification in web.xml at the Web service provider sideChanged the specification of the listener tag, servlet tag, and servlet-mapping tag in web.xml at the Web Service provider side from mandatory to optional.Definition Reference Guide2.4
Using the network resources of the logical serverAdded a functionality for accessing the network resources and network drives on other hosts from the J2EE application.Operation, Monitoring, and Linkage Guide1.2.3, 5.2, 5.7
Simplifying the execution procedure of sample programsSimplified the execution procedure of sample programs by providing some sample programs in the EAR format.First Step Guide3.5
System Setup and Operation GuideAppendix M
Improving the operation of the window of management portalChanged the update interval of the window from "Do not update" to "Three seconds".Management Portal User Guide7.4.1
Improving the Setup Wizard completion windowChanges have been made to display the Easy Setup definition file and the HITACHI Connector Property file used for setup in the window displayed during completion of the Setup Wizard.System Setup and Operation Guide2.2.6
Setting up the virtual environmentAdded the procedure for setting up Application Server on a virtual server implemented by using hypervisors.#Virtual System Setup and Operation GuideChapter 3, Chapter 5
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When setting up in the 08-50 mode, see Appendix D Settings for Using the Virtual Server Manager in the 08-50 Mode in the uCosminexus Application Server Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide.

(2) Supporting standard and existing functionality

The following table describes the items that are changed with the purpose of supporting standard and existing functionality:

Table D-17 Changes with the purpose of supporting standard and existing functionality

ItemOverview of changesReference manualReference
Supporting invocation from OpenTP1Enabled the invocation of the Message-driven Bean operating on the Application Server from OpenTP1.Common Container Functionality GuideChapter 4
Supporting JMSEnabled the use of the Cosminexus JMS provider functionality compliant with JMS1.1 specifications.Common Container Functionality GuideChapter 7
Supporting Java SE 6Enabled the use of the Java SE 6 functionality.Maintenance and Migration Guide5.5, 5.8.1
Supporting the use of genericsEnabled the use of generics in EJB.EJB Container Functionality Guide4.2.19

(3) Maintaining and improving reliability

The following table describes the items that are changed with the purpose of maintaining and improving reliability:

Table D-18 Changes with the purpose of maintaining and improving reliability

ItemOverview of changesReference manualReference
Improving the usability of the Explicit Memory Management functionalityEnabled easy usage of the Explicit Memory Management functionality by using the Automatic Deployment setup file.System Design Guide7.1.1, 7.6.3, 7.10.5, 7.11.1
Expansion GuideChapter 8
Blocking the database session failover functionality in the URI unitEnabled specification of requests that are to be set outside the scope of the database session failover functionality during the use of the functionality in the URI unit.Expansion Guide5.6.1
Monitoring failures in the virtual environmentEnabled the monitoring of virtual servers and detecting the occurrence of failures in a virtual system.Virtual System Setup and Operation GuideAppendix D

(4) Maintaining and improving operability

The following table describes the items that are changed with the purpose of maintaining and improving operability:

Table D-19 Changes with the purpose of maintaining and improving operability

ItemOverview of changesReference manualReference
Omitting the management user accountEnabled the omission of the input of the user login ID and password in the management portal, commands of the Management Server, and commands of the Smart Composer functionality.System Setup and Operation Guide4.1.15
Management Portal User Guide2.2, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 8.1, 8.2.1, Appendix F.2
Command Reference Guide1.4, mngsvrctl (Starting, stopping, and setting up the Management Server), mngsvrutil (Management commands of the Management Server), 8.3, cmx_admin_passwd (Setting the management user account of the Management Server)
Operating the virtual environmentAdded the procedure for executing batch startup, batch stop, scale-in, and scale-out of multiple virtual servers in a virtual system.#Virtual System Setup and Operation GuideChapter 4, Chapter 6
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When operating in the 08-50 mode, see Appendix D Settings for Using the Virtual Server Manager in the 08-50 Mode in the uCosminexus Application Server Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide.

(5) Other purposes

The following table describes the items that are changed for other purposes:

Table D-20 Changes for other purposes

ItemOverview of changesReference manualReference
Statistical functionality for unused objects within the Tenured areaEnabled the identification of only unused objects within the Tenured area.Maintenance and Migration Guide9.8
Base point object list output functionality for Tenured increment factorsEnabled the output of information of the object that acts as the base point of unused objects identified using the statistical functionality for unused objects within the Tenured area.9.9
Class-wise statistical information analysis functionalityEnabled the output of class-wise statistical information in the CSV format.9.10
Cluster node switching due to detection of excess auto restart frequency of the logical serverEnabled node switching when the logical server stops abnormally (when the auto restart frequency is exceeded, or when a failure is detected when the auto restart frequency is set to 0) in the case of cluster configuration in which Management Server is a target for monitoring node switching.Operation, Monitoring, and Linkage Guide18.4.3, 18.5.3, 20.2.2, 20.3.3, 20.3.4
Node switching system for the host unit management modelEnabled node switching for the host unit management model during system operation linked with cluster software.Chapter 20
Supporting ACOS (AX2000, BS320)Added ACOS (AX2000, BS320) in the types of available load balancers.System Setup and Operation Guide4.7.2, 4.7.3, 4.7.5, 4.7.6, Appendix K, Appendix K.2
Definition Reference Guide4.5, 4.6.2, 4.6.4, 4.6.5, 4.6.6, 4.10.1
Adding transaction attributes that can be specified in a Stateful Session Bean (SessionSynchronization) when performing transaction management in CMTChanges have been made to specify Supports, NotSupported, and Never as transaction attributes in a Stateful Session Bean (SessionSynchronization) when performing transaction management in CMT.EJB Container Functionality Guide2.7.3
Forced termination of the Administration Agent during the occurrence of OutOfMemoryErrorEnabled forced termination of the Administration Agent during the occurrence of OutOfMemoryError in JavaVM.Maintenance and Migration Guide2.5.8
Asynchronous parallel processing of threadsEnabled the implementation of the asynchronous timer processing and asynchronous thread processing using TimerManager and WorkManager.Expansion GuideChapter 10