A.9 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 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 A‒31: Changes made for simplifying implementation and setup
Item	Overview of changes	Reference manual	Reference location
Change in the tags for which you must specify `web.xml` of the Web service provider machine	The specification of the `listener` tag, `servlet` tag, and `servlet-mapping` tag is now changed from `required` to `optional` in `web.xml`, on the Web Service provider machine.	Definition Reference Guide	2.2.3
Using the network resources of the logical server	Added a functionality to access the network resources and the 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 a sample program	The procedure to execute a sample program is simplified by providing a part of the sample program in the EAR format.	First Step Guide	3.5
Simplification of the procedure to execute a sample program		System Setup and Operation Guide	Appendix L
Improving the operations of the Management Portal screen	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 wizard	Enabled the display of the Easy Setup definition file and Connector property file used in setup, on the screen when Setup Wizard is completed.	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 hypervisors.^#	Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide	Chapter 3, 5

#: For setting with the 08-50 mode, see Appendix D Settings when using the Virtual server manager of the 08-50 mode in the uCosminexus Application Server Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide.

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(2) Supporting standard and existing functionality

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

Table A‒32: Changes made for supporting standard and existing functionality
Item	Overview of changes	Reference manual	Reference location
Supporting the invocation from OpenTP1	Enabled the invocation of the Message-driven Beans operating on Application Server from OpenTP1.	Common Container Functionality Guide	Chapter 4
Supporting JMS	Enabled the usage of the Cosminexus JMS provider functionality that is compliant to the JMS1.1 specifications.	Common Container Functionality Guide	Chapter 6
Supporting Java SE 6	Enabled the usage of the Java SE 6 functionality.	Maintenance and Migration Guide	5.5, 5.8.1
Support for using Generics	Enabled the usage of Generics in EJB.	EJB Container Functionality Guide	4.2.18

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(3) Maintaining and improving reliability

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

Table A‒33: Changes made for maintaining and improving reliability
Item	Overview of changes	Reference manual	Reference location
Improving the usability of the Explicit Memory Management functionality	Enabled the easy usage of the Explicit Memory Management functionality with the automatic allocation setup file.	System Design Guide	7.2, 7.7.3, 7.11.4, 7.12.1
		Expansion Guide	Chapter 7
Disabling the database session failover functionality in URI	When using the database session failover functionality, the request that is not the target of the functionality can now be specified in URI.	This manual	5.6.1
Fault monitoring in a virtual environment	Enabled the detection of the fault that occurred, by monitoring the virtual server in a virtual system.	Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide	Appendix D

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(4) Maintaining and improving operation performance

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

Table A‒34: Changes made for maintaining and improving operation performance
Item	Overview of changes	Reference manual	Reference location
Omitting the management user account	Enabled the omission of the user login ID and password in the 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 (Starting/Stopping/Setup of Management Server), mngsvrutil(Operations management command of Management Server), 8.3, cmx_admin_passwd(Settings of the Management user account of Management Server)
Operations in a virtual environment	Added a procedure to operate batch start and batch stop, scale in and scale out for the multiple servers in a virtual system. ^#	Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide	Chapter 4, 6

#: When you set up in 08-50 mode, see Appendix D Settings when using the virtual server manager of 08-50 mode in the uCosminexus Application Server Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide.

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(5) Other purposes

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

Table A‒35: Changes made for other purposes
Item	Overview of changes	Reference manual	Reference location
Functionality to count the unnecessary objects in the Tenured area	Enabled to 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	Modified to output the information of the objects that are the source of unnecessary objects specified by using the functionality to count the unnecessary objects in a `Tenured` area.		9.9
Functionality to analyze the class wise statistical information	Enabled to output the class wise statistical information in the CSV format.		9.10
Cluster node switching according to the automatic restart over number detection of the logical server	Enabled the node switching at the time when the logical server is in an abnormal stop status (when an error is detected if the frequency of automatic restart is over or frequency of automatic restart is set to 0) for a cluster configuration that is monitored for switching Management Server.	Operation, Monitoring, and Linkage Guide	18.4.3, 18.5.3, 16.2.2, 16.3.3, 16.3.4
Node switching system for the host unit management model	Enabled the node switching for the host unit management model in the system operations integrated with cluster software.	Operation, Monitoring, and Linkage Guide	Chapter 16
Supporting ACOS (AX2000 and BS320)	Added ACOS (AX2000 and 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 J, Appendix J.2
Supporting ACOS (AX2000 and BS320)		Definition Reference Guide	4.2.4, 4.3.2, 4.3.4, 4.3.5, 4.3.6, 4.7.1
Adding the transaction property that can be specified in Stateful Session Bean (SessionSynchronization) when managing a transaction in CMT	When managing a transaction in CMT, enabled to specify `Supports`, `NotSupported`, and `Never` as a transaction property in Stateful Session Bean (SessionSynchronization).	EJB Container Functionality Guide	2.7.3
Terminating Administration Agent when `OutOfMemoryError` occurs	When `OutOfMemoryError` occurs in Java VM, enabled to terminate Administration Agent.	Maintenance and Migration Guide	2.5.5
Asynchronous parallel processing of threads	Enabled to implement asynchronous timer processing and asynchronous processing of threads by using TimerManager and WorkManager.	This manual	--

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