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uCosminexus Application Server Operation, Monitoring, and Linkage Guide


D.9 Main updates in the functionality of 08-50

Organization of this subsection

(1) Simplifying implementation and setup

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

Table D‒31: Changes made for simplifying implementation and setup

Item

Overview of changes

Reference manual

Section

Changing the specification of required tags of web.xml at the Web service provider machine

Specifications of the listener, servlet, and servlet-mapping tags have been changed from 'Required to 'Optional' in the web.xml on the Web service provider machine.

Definition Reference Guide

2.2.3

Using network resources of logical servers

Functionality has been added for accessing network resources or a network drive on another host from a J2EE application.

This manual

1.2.3, 5.2, 5.7

Simplifying the execution procedure of sample programs

Sample programs have been provided in the EAR format to simplify the execution procedure.

First Step Guide

3.5

System Setup and Operation Guide

Appendix L

Improving the operations of the Management Portal window

The default window update interval has been changed from 'Do not update' to '3 seconds'.

Management Portal User Guide

7.4.1

Improving the completion window of the Setup Wizard

Changes have been made to enable the display of the Easy Setup definition file and the HITACHI Connector Property file, used during the setup, on the screen that is displayed when the Setup Wizard completes.

System Setup and Operation Guide

2.2.6

Setting up the virtual environment

A procedure has been added for setting up Application Server on the virtual server, implemented by using a hypervisor. #

Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide

Chapter 3, Chapter 5

#

To set up a virtual environment in the 08-50 mode, see Appendix D. Settings for Using Virtual Server Manager in the 08-50 Mode in the uCosminexus Application Server Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide.

(2) Supporting standard and existing functionality

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

Table D‒32: Changes made for supporting standard and existing functionality

Item

Overview of changes

Reference manual

Section

Supporting invocation from OpenTP1

Changes have been made to enable the invocation of Message-driven Beans operating on Application Server from OpenTP1.

Common Container Functionality Guide

Chapter 4

Supporting JMS

Changes have been made to enable the use of the Cosminexus JMS provider functionality corresponding to the JMS1.1 specifications.

Common Container Functionality Guide

Chapter 6

Supporting Java SE 6

Changes have been made to enable the use of the functionality provided with Java SE 6.

Maintenance and Migration Guide

5.5, 5.8.1

Supporting the use of Generics

Changes have been made to enable the usage of Generics in EJBs.

EJB Container Functionality Guide

4.2.18

(3) Maintaining and improving reliability

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

Table D‒33: Changes made for maintaining and improving the reliability

Item

Overview of changes

Reference manual

Section

Improving usability of the Explicit Memory Management functionality

Changes have been made to enable easy usage of the Explicit Memory Management functionality with the automatic arrangement setup file.

System Design Guide

7.2, 7.7.3, 7.11.4, 7.12.1

Expansion Guide

Chapter 7

Controlling URI units of the database session failover functionality

Changes have been made to enable the specification of requests that are outside the scope of the functionality in URI units, when using the database session failover functionality.

Expansion Guide

5.6.1

Monitoring errors in a virtual environment

A virtual server in a virtual system can now be monitored and the occurrence of errors can be detected.

Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide

Appendix D

(4) Maintaining and improving the operational performance

The following table lists the items that are changed for maintaining and improving operational performance:

Table D‒34: Changes made for maintaining and improving operational performance

Item

Overview of changes

Reference manual

Section

Omitting the management user account

Changes have been made to enable the omission of entering user login IDs and passwords in commands of Management Server and commands of the Smart Composer functionality.

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/ Setting up Management Server), mngsvrutil (Management Server management command), 8.3, cmx_admin_passwd (Setting up the management user account for Management Server)

Virtual environment operations

A procedure has been added for executing batch start or batch stop and scalein or scaleout for multiple virtual servers in a virtual system. #

Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide

Chapter 4, Chapter 6

#

To operate the virtual environment in the 08-50 mode, see Appendix D. Settings for Using Virtual Server Manager in the 08-50 Mode in the uCosminexus Application Server Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide.

(5) Other purpose

The following table lists the items that are changed for other purpose:

Table D‒35: Changes made for other purposes

Item

Overview of changes

Reference manual

Section

Unused objects statistical functionality in the Tenured area

Changes have been made to enable identification of only the required objects in the Tenured area

Maintenance and Migration Guide

9.8

Base object list output functionality for Tenured augmentation factors

Changes have been made to enable the information output about objects acting as the base of the unused objects that are identified using the unused object statistics functionality in the Tenured area.

9.9

Class-wise statistics analysis functionality

Changes have been made to enable the output of class-wise statistics in the CSV format.

9.10

Cluster node switching based on detection of the excessive automatic restart count of logical servers

Changes have been made to enable node switching when a logical server stops abnormally (when the automatic restart count exceeds or when a failure is detected while the automatic restart is set to 0) for the cluster configuration in which node switching is monitored using Management Server.

This manual

16.2.2, 16.3.3, 16.3.4, 18.4.3, 18.5.3

Node switching system for the host management model

Changes have been made to enable node switching for host unit management models while operating the systems integrated with cluster software.

Chapter 16

Supporting ACOS (AX2000, BS320)

ACOS (AX2000, BS320) was added as a load balancer type that can be used.

System Setup and Operation Guide

4.7.2, 4.7.3, 4.7.5, 4.7.6, Appendix J, Appendix J.2

Definition Reference Guide

4.2.4, 4.3.2, 4.3.4, 4.7.1

Adding transaction attributes that can be specified in the Stateful Session Bean (SessionSynchronization) when performing transaction management with CMT

Changes have been made to enable the specification of Supports, NotSupported, and Never as transaction attributes in the Stateful Session Bean (SessionSynchronization), when performing transaction management with CMT.

EJB Container Functionality Guide

2.7.3

Forced termination of Administration Agent when OutOfMemoryError occurs

Changes have been made to enable the forced termination of Administration Agent when OutOfMemory occurs in Java VM.

Maintenance and Migration Guide

2.5.5

Asynchronous parallel processing of threads

Changes have been made to enable the implementation of asynchronous timer processing and asynchronous thread processing using TimerManager and WorkManager.

Expansion Guide

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