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Appendix E.5 Main functionality changes in 08-00

This section describes the main functionality changes in Application Server 08-00. These changes are described below with reference to the purpose of change.

The description contents are as follows:

Organization of this subsection
(1) Improvement of development productivity
(2) Support to standard functionality
(3) Maintenance and improvement of reliability
(4) Maintenance and improvement of operability
(5) Other purposes

(1) Improvement of development productivity

The following table describes the items changed with the purpose of improving the development productivity.

Table E-21 Changes made with the purpose of improving the development productivity

Item Overview of changes Reference Section
Simplification of migration from other Application Server products Enabled the use of the following functionality for smooth migration from other Application Server products:
  • Enabled the judgment of upper limit of the HTTP sessions through an exception.
  • Enabled the inhibition of occurrence of a translation error when the ID of JavaBeans is duplicate, and when the upper-case characters and lower-case characters are different in the attribute name of the custom tag and in the TLD definition.
Web Container Functionality Guide 2.3, 2.7.5
Provision of cosminexus.xml Enabled the start of J2EE applications without setting the properties after importing them into the J2EE server by describing the properties unique to the Cosminexus Application Server in cosminexus.xml. Common Container Functionality Guide 11.3

(2) Support to standard functionality

The following table describes the items changed with the purpose of supporting the standard functionality.

Table E-22 Changes made with the purpose of supporting the standard functionality

Item Overview of changes Reference Section
Servlet 2.5 support Supported Servlet 2.5. Web Container Functionality Guide 2.2, 2.5.4, 2.6, Chapter 6
JSP 2.1 support Supported JSP 2.1. Web Container Functionality Guide 2.3.1, 2.3.3, 2.5, 2.6, Chapter 6
JSP debug Enabled the execution of JSP debugging in the development environment using MyEclipse. # Web Container Functionality Guide 2.4
Storage of the tag library in the library JAR, and TLD mapping Enabled the search of TLD files within the library JAR by the Web container during the start of the Web application, and their subsequent automatic mapping, when the tag libraries are stored in the library JAR. Web Container Functionality Guide 2.3.4
Omission of application.xml Enabled the omission of application.xml in a J2EE application. Common Container Functionality Guide 11.4
Combined use of annotations and DDs Enabled the combined use of annotations and DDs, and also enabled the update of annotation contents in the DD. Common Container Functionality Guide 12.5
Conformance of annotations to Java EE 5 standard (default interceptor) Enabled the storage of the default interceptor in the library JAR. Also enabled the execution of DI from the default interceptor. Common Container Functionality Guide 11.4
Reference resolution of @Resource Enabled the reference resolution of resources with @Resource. Common Container Functionality Guide 12.4
JPA support Supported JPA specifications. Common Container Functionality Guide Chapter 5, Chapter 6

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In 09-00 and later versions, you can use the JSP debug functionality in the development environment using WTP.

(3) Maintenance and improvement of reliability

The following table describes the items changed with the purpose of maintaining or improving reliability.

Table E-23 Changes made with the purpose of maintaining or improving reliability

Item Overview of changes Reference Section
Persistence of session information Enabled the inheritance of session information of an HTTP session by saving the information in the database. Expansion Guide Chapter 5, Chapter 6
Inhibition of a full garbage collection Enabled the inhibition of occurrence of a full garbage collection by deploying the objects responsible for the full garbage collection outside the Java heap. Expansion Guide Chapter 8
Client performance monitor The time required for client processing can now be checked and analyzed. -- --

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(4) Maintenance and improvement of operability

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

Table E-24 Changes made with the purpose of maintaining and improving operability

Item Overview of changes Reference Section
Improving the operability of applications on the management portal The server management commands and management portal can now be interoperated for application and resource operations. Management Portal Operation Guide 1.1.3

(5) Other purposes

The following table describes the items changed with some other purpose.

Table E-25 Changes made with other purposes

Item Overview of changes Reference Section
Deletion if disabled HTTP Cookies Enabled the deletion of disabled HTTP Cookies. Web Container Functionality Guide 2.7.4
Failure detection in the Naming Service Enabled prompt detection of the error by the EJB client, when a failure occurs in the Naming Service. Common Container Functionality Guide 2.9
Connection failure detection timeout Enabled the specification of the timeout period for a connection failure detection timeout. Common Container Functionality Guide 3.15.1
Oracle11g support Enabled the use of Oracle11g as a database. Common Container Functionality Guide Chapter 3
Scheduling of batch processing Enabled the scheduling of execution of batch applications by CTM. Expansion Guide Chapter 4
Batch processing log The retry frequency and retry interval can now be specified for the size and number of log files of the batch execution command and the failure of exclusive processing of the log. Definition Reference Guide 3.6
snapshot log Changed the collection contents of the snapshot log. This manual Appendix A.1, Appendix A.2
Publication of protected area of method cancellation Published the contents of protected area list that is outside the scope of method cancellation. Operation, Monitoring, and Linkage Guide Appendix C
Pre-statistical garbage collection selection functionality Enabled the selection of whether or not to execute a garbage collection before the output of class-wise statistical information. This manual 9.7
Tenuring distribution information output functionality of the Survivor area. Enabled the output of tenuring distribution information of Java objects of the Survivor area to the JavaVM log file. This manual 9.11
Finalize retention cancellation functionality Enabled the cancellation of retention of the finalize processing of JavaVM after monitoring its status. -- --
Change of the maximum heap size of server management commands Changed the maximum heap size used by server management commands. Definition Reference Guide 5.2, 5.3
Action for cases when un-recommended display names are specified Provided the output of messages when un-recommended display names are specified in J2EE applications. Messages KDJE42374-W

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