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This section describes the main updates in the functionality of Application Server 09-50 and the purpose of each update.
The following contents are described in this section:
The following table describes the items that have been changed for improving development productivity.
Table 1-4 Changes made for improving development productivity
| Item | Overview of changes | Reference manual | Reference location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simplifying Eclipse setup | Enabled the setup of the Eclipse environment by using GUI. | Application Development Guide | 1.1.5, 2.4 |
| Debugging support using the user extended performance analysis trace | Enabled the creation of the user extended performance analysis trace configuration file in a development environment. | Application Development Guide | 1.1.3, 6.5 |
The following table describes the items that have been changed to simplify implementation and setup:
Table 1-5 Changes made for simplifying implementation and setup
| Item | Overview of changes | Reference manual | Reference location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Expanding the system configuration pattern in a virtual environment | The types of tier (http-tier, j2ee-tier and ctm-tier) that can be used in a virtual environment have increased. This enables the set up of the following system configuration patterns:
|
Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide | 1.1.2 |
The following table describes the items that are changed to support standard and existing functionality:
Table 1-6 Changes made for supporting the standard and existing functionality
| Item | Overview of changes | Reference manual | Reference location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supporting the JDBC 4.0 specifications | DB Connector now supports the HiRDB Type4 JDBC Driver with JDBC 4.0 specifications and the JDBC Driver of SQL Server. | Common Container Functionality Guide | 3.6.3 |
| Modifying naming conventions in the Portable Global JNDI names | Added characters that can be used in the Portable Global JNDI names. | Common Container Functionality Guide | 2.4.3 |
| Supporting the Servlet 3.0 specifications | Updates of the HTTP Cookie name of Servlet 3.0 and the path parameter name of URL can now be used even in versions earlier than Servlet 2.5 | Web Container Functionality Guide | 2.7 |
| Expanding the applicability of an application which can be integrated with Bean Validation | Enabled validation using Bean Validation with CDI and user applications. | Common Container Functionality Guide | Chapter 10 |
| Supporting JavaMail | Enabled the use of the mail sending and receiving functionality that uses APIs, and is compliant with JavaMail 1.4. | Common Container Functionality Guide | Chapter 8 |
| Expanding the applicability of OSs on which you can use the javacore command | Enabled acquisition of a thread dump of Windows by using the javacore command | Command Reference Guide | javacore (acquiring thread dump / in Windows) |
The following table describes the items that have been changed for maintaining and improving reliability:
Table 1-7 Changes made for maintaining and improving reliability
| Item | Overview of changes | Reference manual | Reference location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preventing exhaustion of the code cache area | Enabled prevention of area exhaustion by checking the size of the code cache area used in the system and changing the threshold value before the area is exhausted. | System Design Guide | 7.1.2 |
| Maintenance and Migration Guide | 5.7.2, 5.7.3 | ||
| Definition Reference Guide | 16.1, 16.2, 16.4 | ||
| Supporting an effective application of the explicit heap functionality Expanding the output range of the class-wise statistical information |
Added functionality that can control the objects to be moved to the Explicit heap as functionality to shorten the automatic release processing time and efficiently apply the explicit heap functionality.
|
System Design Guide | 7.13.6 |
| Expansion Guide | 8.2.2, 8.6.5, 8.10, 8.13.1, 8.13.3 | ||
| Maintenance and Migration Guide | 5.5 | ||
| Maintenance and Migration Guide | 9.6 |
The following table describes the items that have been changed for maintaining and improving operation performance:
Table 1-8 Changes made for maintaining and improving operation performance
| Item | Overview of changes | Reference manual | Reference location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supporting the EADs session failover functionality | Supported the EADs session failover functionality, which implements the session failover functionality by integrating with EADs. | Expansion Guide | Chapter 5, Chapter 7 |
| Operation using WAR | Enabled deploying of the WAR application that consists of only the WAR files, on the J2EE server. | Web Container Functionality Guide | 2.2.1 |
| Common Container Functionality Guide | 13.9 | ||
| Command Reference Guide | cjimportwar (Importing WAR application) | ||
| Starting and stopping by synchronous execution of the operation management functionality | Added an option that executes the synchronous starting and stopping of the operation management functionality (Management Server and Administration Agent). | Operation, Monitoring, and Linkage Guide | 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4 |
| Command Reference Guide | adminagentctl (start or stop Administration Agent), mngautorun (set up/canceling the set up of autostart and autorestart), mngsvrctl (start, stop, or set up Management Server) | ||
| Forcefully releasing the Explicit memory blocks in the explicit management heap functionality | Enabled the execution of the process of releasing the Explicit memory blocks with the javagc command at any timing. | Expansion Guide | 8.6.1, 8.9 |
| Command Reference Guide | javagc (Force generation of garbage collection) |
The following table describes the items that have been changed for other purposes:
Table 1-9 Changes made for other purposes
| Item | Overview of changes | Reference manual | Reference location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acquiring the definition information | Enabled collection of only the definition file with the snapshot (snapshot log collection) command. | Maintenance and Migration Guide | 2.3 |
| Command Reference Guide | snapshotlog (collecting snapshot log) | ||
| Log output of the cjenvsetup command | Enabled output of the execution information of the setup (cjenvsetup command) of Component Container Administrator to the message log. | System Setup and Operation Guide | 4.1.4 |
| Maintenance and Migration Guide | 4.20 | ||
| Command Reference Guide | cjenvsetup (setup of Component Container Administrator) | ||
| Supporting BIG-IP v11 | Added BIG-IP v11 to the types of the available load balancers | System Setup and Operation Guide | 4.7.2 |
| Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide | 2.1 | ||
| Performing the output of the CPU time to the event log of the explicit heap functionality | Enabled the output of the CPU time taken for the Explicit memory block release processing, to the event log of the explicit heap functionality. | Maintenance and Migration Guide | 5.11.3 |
| Extending the user extended performance analysis trace functionality | Added the following functionality to the user extended performance analysis trace:
|
Maintenance and Migration Guide | 7.5.2, 7.5.3, 8.28.1 |
| Improving the information analysis when using an asynchronous invocation of Session Bean | Enabled the comparison of the requests of the invocation source and invocation destination by using the root application information of the PRF trace. | This manual | 2.17.3 |
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