uCosminexus Application Server, EJB Container Functionality Guide

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Appendix B.4 Main updates in the functionality of 08-50

Organization of this subsection
(1) Simplifying implementation and setup
(2) Supporting standard and existing functionality
(3) Maintaining and improving reliability
(4) Maintaining and improving the operation performance
(5) Other purposes

(1) Simplifying implementation and setup

The following table describes the items that are changed to simplify implementation and setup:

Table B-16 Changes made for simplifying implementation and setup

Item Overview of change Reference manual Reference location
Change in the tags for which it is mandatory to specify web.xml of the Web service provider side Because it is mandatory to specify the listener tag, servlet tag and servlet-mapping tag in web.xml of Web service provider side, the tags have been arbitrarily changed. Definition Reference Guide 2.4
Using the network resource of the Logical server Added a functionality to access the network resource and network drive on the other hosts from the J2EE application. Operation, Monitoring, and Linkage Guide 1.2.3, 5.2, 5.7
Simplification of the procedure to execute Sample program The procedure to execute the sample program is simplified by providing a part of the sample program in EAR format. First Step Guide 3.5
System Setup and Operation Guide Appendix M
Improving the operations of the Operations Management Portal window Changed the default update interval of the screen from Do not update to 3 seconds. Management Portal User Guide 7.4.1
Improving the Completion screen of the Setup window Changes are made to the window Setup wizard completion window to enable the display of the Easy Setup definition file and connector property file used in the setup. System Setup and Operation Guide 2.2.6
Configuring a virtual environment Added a procedure to configure Application Server on virtual servers that are implemented by using various hypervisors.# Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide Chapter 3 and 5

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When you configure with the 08-50 mode, see Appendix D Settings when using the Virtual server manager of the 08-50 mode of uCosminexus Application Server Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide.

(2) Supporting standard and existing functionality

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

Table B-17 Changes made for supporting standard and existing functionality

Item Overview of change Reference manual Reference location
Support for invocation from OpenTP1 Changes have been made to enable invocation of the Message-driven Beans operating on Application Server from OpenTP1. Common Container Functionality Guide Chapter 4
Support to JMS Changes have been made to enable the usage of the CJMS provider functionality that is compliant with the JMS1.1 specifications. Common Container Functionality Guide Chapter 7
Support to Java SE 6 Java SE 6 functionality can be used now. Maintenance and Migration Guide 5.5,5.8.1
Support for using Generics Generics can now be used in EJB. This manual 4.2.19

(3) Maintaining and improving reliability

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

Table B-18 Changes made for maintaining and improving reliability

Item Overview of change Reference manual Reference location
Improving the usability of the Explicit Memory Management functionality The Explicit Memory Management functionality can now be easily used by using the automatic allocation setup file. System Design Guide 7.1.1, 7.6.3, 7.10.5, 7.11.1
Expansion Guide Chapter 8
Disabling database session failover functionality in URI When using the database session failover functionality, a request that is not the target of the functionality can now be specified in URI. Expansion Guide 5.6.1
Error monitoring in the virtual environment A setting has been added to stop the virtual server in which an error has occurred by monitoring virtual server errors in the virtual system. Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide Appendix D

(4) Maintaining and improving the operation performance

The following table describes the items that are changed for maintaining and improving operation performance:

Table B-19 Changes made for maintaining and improving operation performance

Item Overview of change Reference manual Reference location
Omission of the Management user account The user can now omit the input of login ID and password in the Operations management portal, Management Server commands, and Smart Composer functionality commands. System Setup and Operation Guide 4.1.15
Management Portal User Guide 2.2, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 8.1, 8.2.1, Appendix F.2
Command Reference Guide 1.4, mngsvrctl (set up/cancelling the set up of autostart and autorestart), mngsvrutil(Management Server management command), 8.3, cmx_admin_passwd(Settings of the Management user account of Management Server)
Operations of the virtual environment Added a procedure to operate batch startup and batch stopping scale in and scale out for the multiple servers in the virtual system.# Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide Chapter 4 and 6

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When you configure with 08-50 mode, see Appendix D Settings when using the Virtual server manager of the 08-50 mode of 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 B-20 Changes made for other purposes

Item Overview of change Reference manual Reference location
Functionality to count the unnecessary objects in the Tenured area You can now specify only the unnecessary objects within the Tenured area. Maintenance and Migration Guide 9.8
Functionality to output the source object list of the Tenured area increase factor You can now output the information of the object that is specified by using the functionality to count the unnecessary objects in the Tenured area, and is the source of unnecessary objects. 9.9
Functionality to analyze the class wise statistical information The class wise statistical information can now be output in CSV format. 9.10
Cluster node switching according to the automatic restart restore over number detection The node can now be switched at a timing when the logical server is in an abnormal stop status (when an errors is detected if the frequency of automatic restart is in an over status or frequency of automatic restart is set to 0) for a cluster configuration that is monitored for switching the Management Server. Operation, Monitoring, and Linkage Guide 18.4.3, 18.5.3, 20.2.2, 20.3.3, 20.3.4
Node switching system for the host unit management model The node can now be switched for the host unit management model in the system operations integrated with cluster software. Chapter 20
Support for ACOS (AX2000, BS320) Added ACOS (AX2000, BS320) to the type of available load balancing functionality System Setup and Operation Guide 4.7.2, 4.7.3, 4.7.5, 4.7.6, Appendix K, AppendixK.2
Definition Reference Guide 4.5, 4.6.2, 4.6.4, 4.6.5, 4.6.6, 4.10.1
Adding the transaction property that can be specified in the Stateful Session Bean (SessionSynchronization) when managing a transaction in CMT When managing a transaction in CMT, Supports, NotSupported and Never can be now specified as a transaction property in the Stateful Session Bean (SessionSynchronization). This manual 2.7.3
Terminating the Administration Agent when OutOfMemory has occured When OutOfMemory occurs in Java VM, the Administration Agent can be terminated. Maintenance and Migration Guide 2.5.8
Asynchronous parallel processing of threads Asynchronous timer processing and Asynchronous processing of threads can be implemented by using TimerManager and WorkManager. Expansion Guide Chapter 10