Appendix F.3 Main functionality changes in 08-53

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

(1) Simplifying installation and setup

The following table describes the items that are changed to simplify installation and setup.

Table F-11 Changes made for simplifying installation and setup

ItemOverview of changesReference manualReference location
Setting up a virtual environment supporting various hypervisorsApplication Server can now be set up on a virtual server implemented by using various hypervisors.
An environment in which multiple hypervisors co-exist is also supported now.
Virtual System Setup and Operation GuideChapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 5

(2) Supporting standard and existing functionality

The following table describes the items that are changed to support standard and existing functionality.

Table F-12 Changes made for supporting standard and existing functionality

ItemOverview of changesReference manualReference location
Invocation from OpenTP1 supporting transaction integrationTransactions can now be integrated when the Message-driven Beans running on Application Server are invoked from OpenTP1This manualChapter 4
JavaMailThe mail receiving functionality, which uses the APIs conforming to JavaMail 1.3 by integrating with the mail server conforming to POP3, is now available.This manualChapter 8

(3) Maintaining and improving reliability

The following table describes the items that are changed for maintaining and improving reliability.

Table F-13 Changes made for maintaining and improving reliability

ItemOverview of changesReference manualReference location
Enhancing the JavaVM troubleshooting functionalityThe following functionality can now be used as the JavaVM troubleshooting functionality:
  • The operations when OutOfMemoryError occurs can now be changed.
  • You can now set up an upper limit for the amount of C heap allocated for JIT compilation.
  • You can now set up the maximum thread count.
  • The output items of the extended verbosegc information have been extended.
Maintenance and Migration GuideChapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 9

(4) Maintaining and improving operability

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

Table F-14 Changes with the purpose of maintaining and improving operability

ItemOverview of changesReference manualReference location
Supporting JP1/ITRMJP1/ITRM, a product that uniformly manages the IT resources, is now supported.Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide1.3, 2.1

(5) Other purposes

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

Table F-15 Changes due to other purposes

ItemOverview of changesReference manualReference location
Supporting Microsoft IIS 7.0 and Microsoft IIS 7.5Microsoft IIS 7.0 and Microsoft IIS 7.5 are now supported as Web servers.----
Supporting HiRDB Version 9 and SQL Server 2008The following database products are now supported:
  • HiRDB Server Version 9
  • HiRDB/Developer's Kit Version 9
  • HiRDB/Run Time Version 9
  • SQL Server 2008
Also, SQL Server JDBC Driver is now supported as the JDBC driver for SQL Server 2008.
This manualChapter 3
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