A.5 Main updates in the functionality of 09-50
- Organization of this subsection
(1) Improvement in development productivity
The following table describes the items that are changed for improving the development productivity.
Item |
Overview of changes |
Reference manual |
Reference location |
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Simplification of Eclipse setup |
An Eclipse environment can now be set up from the GUI. |
Application Development Guide |
1.1.5, 2.4 |
Aid for debugging with user-extended performance analysis traces |
A user-extended performance analysis trace configuration file can now be created in the development environment. |
Application Development Guide |
1.1.3, 6.4 |
(2) Simplifying implementation and setup
The following table describes the items that are changed to simplify the implementation and setup.
Item |
Overview of changes |
Reference manual |
Reference location |
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Addition of system configurations in a virtualization environment |
Additional tier types (http-tier, j2ee-tier, and ctm-tier) can now be used in a virtualization environment. As a result, systems can now be built in the following configurations:
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Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide |
1.1.2 |
(3) Supporting standard and existing functionality
The following table describes the items that are changed to support the standard and existing functionality.
Item |
Overview of changes |
Reference manual |
Reference location |
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Support for the JDBC 4.0 specifications |
DB Connector now supports HiRDB Type4 JDBC Driver compliant with JDBC 4.0 and the JDBC driver for SQL Server. |
Common Container Functionality Guide |
3.6.3 |
Relaxation of the naming rules for Portable Global JNDI names |
Characters that can be used in Portable Global JNDI names were added. |
Common Container Functionality Guide |
2.4.3 |
Support for the Servlet 3.0 specifications |
HTTP Cookie names and URL path parameter names can now be changed in Servlet 2.5 or earlier as they can be changed in Servlet 3.0. |
Web Container Functionality Guide |
2.7 |
Expansion of applications that can link with Bean Validation |
Bean Validation can now be used with the CDI or a user application to perform validation. |
Common Container Functionality Guide |
Chapter 9 |
JavaMail support |
An email sending and receiving function that uses an API compliant with JavaMail 1.4 can now be used. |
Common Container Functionality Guide |
Chapter 7 |
OSs supported by the javacore command |
The javacore command can now be used to obtain thread dumps in Windows. |
Command Reference Guide |
javacore (Acquiring the thread dump/in Windows) |
(4) Maintaining and improving reliability
The following table describes the items that are changed for maintaining and improving reliability.
Item |
Overview of changes |
Reference manual |
Reference location |
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Prevention of depletion of the code cache area |
Depletion of the code cache area can now be prevented by checking the size of the area used by the system and changing the threshold value before depletion occurs. |
System Design Guide |
7.2.6 |
Maintenance and Migration Guide |
5.7.2, 5.7.3 |
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Definition Reference Guide |
14.1, 14.2, 14.4 |
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Efficient use of the Explicit Memory Management functionality |
The following functions were added that can control the objects that move to the Explicit heap so that the time required for automatic release is reduced to efficiently apply the Explicit Memory Management functionality:
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System Design Guide |
7.14.6 |
This manual |
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Maintenance and Migration Guide |
5.5 |
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Expansion of the output range of class-wise statistical information |
An extended thread dump containing class-wise statistical information can now include reference relationships based on static fields. |
Maintenance and Migration Guide |
9.6 |
(5) Maintaining and improving the operation performance
The following table describes the items that are changed for maintaining and improving operation performance.
Item |
Overview of changes |
Reference manual |
Reference location |
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Support for the EADs session failover functionality |
The EADs session failover functionality, which enables session failover in collaboration with EADs, is supported. |
This manual |
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Operations using WAR files |
A WAR application that consists of only WAR files can now be deployed on the J2EE server. |
Web Container Functionality Guide |
2.2.1 |
Common Container Functionality Guide |
15.9 |
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Command Reference Guide |
cjimportwar (Import a WAR application) |
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Synchronous start and stop of the management functionality |
An option that synchronously starts and stops the management functionality (Management Server and Administration Agent) was added. |
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 setup Management Server) |
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Forced release of Explicit memory blocks by the Explicit Memory Management functionality |
The javagc command can now be used to release Explicit memory blocks at any time. |
This manual |
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Command Reference Guide |
javagc (forcibly perform GC) |
(6) Other purposes
The following table describes the items that are changed for other purposes.
Item |
Overview of changes |
Reference manual |
Reference location |
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Acquisition of definition information |
The snapshotlog command (collect snapshot logs) can now be used to collect definition files only. |
Maintenance and Migration Guide |
2.3 |
Command Reference Guide |
snapshotlog (collect snapshot logs) |
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Output of log data for the cjenvsetup command |
The information about setup operations (using the cjenvsetup command) performed by the Component Container administrator is now output to the message log. |
System Setup and Operation Guide |
4.1.4 |
Maintenance and Migration Guide |
4.20 |
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Command Reference Guide |
cjenvsetup (set up Component Container Administrator) |
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BIG-IP v11 support |
BIG-IP v11 was added as a type of load balancer that can be used. |
System Setup and Operation Guide |
4.7.2 |
Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide |
2.1 |
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Output of the CPU time to the event log for the Explicit Memory Management functionality |
The CPU time required to release Explicit memory blocks is now output to the event log for the Explicit Memory Management functionality. |
Maintenance and Migration Guide |
5.11.3 |
Extension of the user-extended performance analysis trace functionality |
The following changes were made to the user-extended performance analysis trace functionality:
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Maintenance and Migration Guide |
7.5.2, 7.5.3, 8.23.1 |
Improvement of information analysis in cases where asynchronous Session Bean invocations are used |
The requests of invocation source and destination can now be matched by using the root application information of the PRF trace. |
EJB Container Functionality Guide |
2.17.3 |