A.5 Major functional changes in 09-50

Simplifying setup of Eclipse

The GUI can now be used to set up an Eclipse environment.

Application Development Guide

1.1.5, 2.4

Support for debugging using user extended performance analysis traces

User extended performance analysis trace configuration files can now be created in the development environment.

Application Development Guide

1.1.3, 6.4

Support for JDBC 4.0

DB Connector now supports HiRDB Type4 JDBC Driver and SQL Server JDBC drivers that comply with the JDBC 4.0 specifications.

Common Container Functionality Guide

3.6.3

Easing of portable global JNDI naming rules

Characters permitted for portable global JNDI names have been added.

Common Container Functionality Guide

2.4.3

Support for Servlet 3.0

Servlet 2.5 and earlier versions can now rename HTTP cookies and URL path parameters from Servlet 3.0.

Web Container Functionality Guide

2.7

Addition of applications that can link with Bean Validation

CDI and user applications can now use Bean Validation.

Common Container Functionality Guide

Chapter 9

Support for JavaMail

Email sending and receiving functionality that uses JavaMail 1.4-compliant API functions is now supported.

Common Container Functionality Guide

Chapter 7

Addition of OSs that are supported by the javacore command

The javacore command can now be used to obtain Windows thread dumps.

Command Reference Guide

javacore (obtains

thread dumps (Windows) )

Avoiding a shortage of space in code cache areas

A shortage of space in code cache areas can now be avoided by checking the size of a code cache area being used by the system and then changing the threshold values before a shortage of space occurs in the area.

System Design Guide

7.2.6

Maintenance and Migration Guide

5.7.2, 5.7.3

Definition Reference Guide

14.1, 14.2, 14.4

Support for efficient application of the Explicit Memory Management functionality

Functions for controlling objects that are moved to the Explicit heap have been added to reduce the automatic release processing time and apply the Explicit Memory Management functionality efficiently:

• Function for controlling the moving of objects to Explicit memory blocks

• Function for specifying the classes that are not subject to the Explicit Memory Management functionality

• Output of object release rate information to Explicit heap information

System Design Guide

7.14.6

Expansion Guide

7.2.2, 7.6.5, 7.10, 7.13.1, 7.13.3

Maintenance and Migration Guide

5.5

Extension of output range for statistical information by class

Referential relationships based on the static field can now be output to extended thread dumps that contain statistical information by class.

Maintenance and Migration Guide

9.6

Support for the EADs session failover functionality

Functionality that links with EADs and achieves session failover is now supported.

Expansion Guide

Chapter 5

Operations by using WAR

WAR applications that consist of only WAR files can now be deployed on J2EE servers.

Web Container Functionality Guide

2.2.1

Common Container Functionality Guide

15.9

Command Reference Guide

cjimportwar (imports WAR applications)

Synchronously starting and stopping the operation management functionality

An option for synchronously starting and stopping the operation management functionality (Management Server and Administration Agent) has been added.

Operation, Monitoring, and Linkage Guide

2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4

Command Reference Guide

adminagentctl (starts and stops Administration Agent), mngautorun (configures and cancels the configuration of automatic start and automatic restart), mngsvrctl (starts, stops, and sets up Management Server)

Forced release of Explicit memory blocks by using the Explicit Memory Management functionality

The javagc command can now be used to release the Explicit memory blocks at any time.

Expansion Guide

7.6.1, 7.9

Command Reference Guide

javagc (forced execution of garbage collection)

Acquiring definition information

The snapshot (snapshot log collection) command can now be used to collect only definition files.

Maintenance and Migration Guide

2.3

Command Reference Guide

snapshotlog (collects

snapshot logs)

Output of logs by the cjenvsetup command

Information about the execution of Component Container Administrator setup (cjenvsetup command) is now output to the message logs.

System Setup and Operation Guide

4.1.4

Maintenance and Migration Guide

4.20

Command Reference Guide

cjenvsetup (Component Container Administrator setup)

Support for BIG-IP v11

BIG-IP v11, a type of load balancer, is now supported.

System Setup and Operation Guide

4.7.2

Output of CPU time to the event logs of the Explicit Memory Management functionality

The CPU time required for releasing Explicit memory blocks is now output to the event logs of the Explicit Memory Management functionality.

Maintenance and Migration Guide

5.11.3

Functional enhancement of user extended performance analysis traces

The following functions associated with user extended performance analysis traces have been added:

• Trace targets can now be specified in units of packages and classes, in addition to units of methods.

• The available range of event IDs has been expanded.

• The limitation on the number of lines that can be specified in the user extended performance analysis trace configuration file has been eased.

• The trace collection level can now be specified in the user extended performance analysis trace configuration file.

Maintenance and Migration Guide

7.5.2, 7.5.3, 8.23.1

Improvement of information analysis when asynchronous Session Bean calls are used

The source and target requests can now be matched by using the root application information in PRF traces.

EJB Container Functionality Guide

2.17.3