H.8 Main functionality changes in 08-53

Organization of this subsection

(1) Simplifying implementation and setup

The following table shows the item that was changed to simplify implementation and setup.

Table H‒26: Changes made for simplifying implementation and setup
Item	Overview of changes	Reference manual	Reference
Setting up a virtual environment supporting various hypervisors	You can now set up Application Server on a virtual server implemented by using various hypervisors. An environment in which multiple hypervisors co-exist is also supported now.	Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide	Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 5

The following table shows the items that were changed to support the standard and existing functionality.

Table H‒27: Changes made for supporting the standard and existing functionality
Item	Overview of changes	Reference manual	Reference
Invocation from OpenTP1 supporting the transaction integration	You can now integrate transactions when the Message-driven Bean running on Application Server is invoked from OpenTP1	Common Container Functionality Guide	Chapter 4
JavaMail	The mail receiving functionality, which uses the APIs conforming to JavaMail 1.3 by integrating with the mail server conforming to POP3, is now available.	Common Container Functionality Guide	Chapter 7

The following table shows the items that were changed to maintain and improve reliability.

Table H‒28: Changes made for maintaining and improving reliability
Item	Overview of changes	Reference manual	Reference
Enhancing the JavaVM troubleshooting functionality	You can now use the following functionality as the JavaVM troubleshooting functionality: You can now change the operations when `OutOfMemoryError` occurs. You can now set up an upper limit for the amount of the C heap allocated during the JIT compilation. You can now set up the maximum thread count. Output items of the extended verbosegc information have been extended.	Maintenance and Migration Guide	Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 9

The following table shows the items that were changed to maintain and improve operability.

Table H‒29: Changes made for maintaining and improving operability
Item	Overview of changes	Reference manual	Reference
Supporting JP1/ITRM	JP1/ITRM, a product that uniformly manages the IT resources, is now supported.	Virtual System Setup and Operation Guide	1.3, 2.1

The following table shows the items that were changed for other purposes.

Table H‒30: Changes made for other purposes
Item	Overview of changes	Reference manual	Reference
Supporting Microsoft IIS 7.0 and Microsoft IIS 7.5	Microsoft IIS 7.0 and Microsoft IIS 7.5 are now supported as Web servers.	--	--
Supporting HiRDB Version 9 and SQL Server 2008	The following products are now supported as the database: HiRDB Server Version 9 HiRDB/Developer's Kit Version 9 HiRDB/Run Time Version 9 SQL Server 2008 Also, SQL Server JDBC Driver is now supported as the JDBC driver corresponding to SQL Server 2008.	Common Container Functionality Guide	Chapter 3