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This section describes important compatibility information that you should consider before upgrading to WebLogic Server 10.0.
Also see, Compatibility Statement for BEA WebLogic Server 10.0.
Compatibility considerations are provided in the following categories:
As of WebLogic Server 9.0, WebLogic Server uses the Java Management Extensions (JMX) 1.2 implementation that is included in JDK 5.0. Prior to 9.0, WebLogic Server used its own JMX implementation based on the JMX 1.0 specification.
The JMX 1.2 reference implementation introduces serialization incompatibilities. Despite these incompatibilities in the reference implementation, JMX clients created for WebLogic Server 8.1 can be used with 9.2 and 10.0 as follows:
weblogic.management.MBeanHome, it can be run in a WebLogic Server 9.2 or 10.0 instance without being upgraded. -Djmx.serial.form=1.0This startup option causes the JVM to use JMX 1.0 class descriptions when it is serializing objects. The option is required when JMX 1.0 clients communicate with JMX 1.2 agents using the standard JDK classes.
BEA recommends that you update your JMX clients to be compliant with WebLogic Server 10.0. Prior to 9.0, WebLogic Server supported a typed API layer over its JMX layer. It was possible for your JMX application classes to import type-safe interfaces for WebLogic Server MBeans, retrieve a reference to the MBeans through the weblogic.management.MBeanHome interface, and invoke the MBean methods directly.
As of 9.0, the MBeanHome interface is deprecated. Instead of using this API-like programming model, all JMX applications should use the standard JMX programming model, in which clients use the javax.management.MBeanServerConnection interface to discover MBeans, attributes, and attribute types at runtime. In this JMX model, clients interact indirectly with MBeans through the MBeanServerConnection interface.
If any of your classes import the type-safe interfaces (available under weblogic.management), BEA recommends that you update them to use the standard JMX programming model. For more information, see "Understanding WebLogic Server MBeans" in Developing Custom Management Utilities with JMX at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/jmx/understandWLS.html.
Configuration attributes are classified as dynamic or non-dynamic.
WebLogic Server 9.0 introduced a change management process to provide a secure, predictable means for applying configuration changes in a domain. A batch change mechanism changes the way dynamic changes are applied when they are mixed with non-dynamic changes. Specifically, when a configured server or system resource is affected by a change to a non-dynamic attribute, no other changes (even dynamic changes) will take effect, in current or future batches, until after the server or system resource is restarted. In this case, BEA recommends that you restart the entity as soon as possible after the batch change is completed to ensure the system is in a consistent state and to allow future changes to be accepted.
You should test your configuration scripts to determine whether a non-dynamic change has been applied, and if so, restart the server. To determine whether a change is non-dynamic and requires a server restart:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/intro/console.html.isRestartRequired or showChanges. For more information, see
"WLST Command and Variable Reference" in WebLogic Scripting Tool at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/config_scripting/reference.html.
To determine which security attributes are dynamic or non-dynamic, see "Security Configuration MBeans" in Securing WebLogic Server at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/secmanage/mbeans.html.
For more information, see "Managing Configuration Changes" in Understanding Domain Configuration at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/domain_config/changes.html.
As of WebLogic Server 9.0, the number of JDBC resource types was reduced to simplify JDBC configuration and to reduce the likelihood of configuration errors. Now, instead of configuring a JDBC connection pool and then configuring a data source or tx data source to point to the connection pool and bind to the JNDI tree, you can configure a data source that encompasses a connection pool. For more information about simplified JDBC resource configuration, see "Simplified JDBC Resource Configuration" in Configuring and Managing WebLogic JDBC at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/jdbc_admin/jdbc_intro.html#simple_res_config.
The WebLogic Upgrade Wizard automatically converts JDBC data sources, connection pools, MultiPools, and data source factories to their new counterparts in WebLogic Server 10.0, as described in the following sections.
| Note: | Each upgraded JDBC module contains an internal properties section. WebLogic Server uses internal properties to manage the data sources for backward compatibility. Also, some legacy attributes are preserved as properties in the Properties attribute of the JDBC data source file. Do not manually edit any internal properties. |
For information about deprecated JDBC features, methods, interfaces, and MBeans, see "Deprecated JDBC Features, Methods, Interfaces, and MBeans" in WebLogic Server and WebLogic Express Release Notes at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/notes/new.html#deprecated_jdbc_features.
The Upgrade Wizard converts legacy JDBC data source/connection pool pairs to two data source system resource modules, one for the data source and one for the connection pool:
| Note: | Only data sources that are converted as part of a domain upgrade can refer to another data source for its connection pool. In all other cases, each data source contains its own pool of database connections. |
During an upgrade, the Upgrade Wizard sets the GlobalTransactionsProtocol parameter for a data source based on the type of data source being converted (tx or non-tx) and the type of driver used in the related connection pool, as noted in the following table.
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The Upgrade Wizard converts a MultiPool to a multi-data source, which is another instance of a data source object that provides load balancing and/or failover between data sources.
Data source factories are deprecated in this release and are included for backward compatibility only. No conversion of data source factories is required.
The JDBC subsystem uses the new system-wide WebLogic Diagnostic Service for centralized debugging access and logging.
See Using the WebLogic Diagnostic Framework Console Extension.
As of WebLogic Server 9.0, JMS configurations are stored as modules, defined by XML documents that conform to the new weblogic-jmsmd.xsd schema. With modular deployment of JMS resources, you can promote your application and the JMS configuration from one environment to another. For example, you can promote your application and the required JMS configuration from a testing environment to a production environment, without opening an EAR file and without extensive manual JMS re-configuration.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/jms_admin/intro.html#WhatsNewJMS.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/jms_admin/overview.html.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/deployment/deploy.html#deploy_resources.
The WebLogic Upgrade Wizard automatically converts pre-10.0 JMS resources to a JMS Interop module file named interop-jms.xml, which is copied to the domain's config\jms directory. For more information, see "JMS Interop Modules" in Configuring and Managing WebLogic JMS at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/jms_admin/overview.html#jms_interop_modules.
Please note the following JMS configuration changes:
Allow Persistent Downgrade option enables you to specify whether JMS clients receive an exception when they send persistent messages to a destination targeted to a JMS server that does not have a persistent store configured. This option is provided for backward compatibility with previous releases.
By default, the option is set to false specifying that clients will receive an exception when they send persistent messages to a JMS server for which no store is configured. When the option is set to true, persistent messages are downgraded to non-persistent, but, the send operations are allowed to continue. This parameter is effective only when the Store Enabled parameter is disabled (that is, when it is set to false).
For more information, see "AllowsPersistentDowngrade" in "JMSServerBean" in WebLogic Server MBean Reference at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/wlsmbeanref/mbeans/JMSServerMBean.html#AllowsPersistentDowngrade.
Temporary Template is created, by default, for JMS Servers. In previous releases, no default template was provided. You can also configure a temporary template, using the JMS server's Temporary Template attribute.
You can control whether the JMS Server can host a temporary destination by setting the Hosts Temporary Destinations attribute. In previous releases, a JMS Server was enabled to host temporary destinations if and only if the TemporaryTemplate attribute was set.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/jms_admin/advance_config.html#jms_distributed_destination_create.AllowCloseInOnMessage attribute for JMS Connection Factories is enabled by default. For more information, see ClientParamsBean in WebLogic Server MBean Reference at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/wlsmbeanref/mbeans/ClientParamsBean.html.getExpirationLoggingPolicy attribute in the DeliveryFailureParamsBean has been deprecated. BEA recommends that you update your applications to use the Message Life Cycle Logging feature described in "Message Life Cycle Logging" in Configuring and Managing WebLogic JMS at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/jms_admin/troubleshoot.html#message_life_cycle_logging. It should also be noted that the getExpirationLoggingPolicy attribute now removes any leading and trailing white space that may have been embedded in an application.
As of WebLogic Server 9.0, the format of the JMS message ID has changed. BEA will continue to support the pre-9.0 format for existing consumers, producers, and servers. For example, existing JMS consumers may continue to view messages in the pre-9.0 format, even when received from a new JMS producer and JMS server.
The message paging feature for freeing up virtual memory during peak message load situations is always enabled on JMS servers. Additionally, administrators no longer need to create a dedicated message paging store since paged out messages can be stored in a directory on your file system. However, for the best performance you should specify that messages be paged to a directory other than the one used by the JMS server's persistent store.
See " Paging Out Messages To Free Up Memory" in Configuring and Managing WebLogic JMS.
BEA recommends using Work Manager concepts to manage threads, as execute queues are no longer the default method used as of WebLogic Server 9.0. You define the rules and constraints for your application by defining a Work Manager and applying it either globally to a WebLogic Server domain or specifically to an application component. For more information, see: "Using Work Managers to Optimize Scheduled Work" in Configuring WebLogic Server Environments at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/config_wls/self_tuned.html.
In WebLogic Server 8.1, processing was performed in multiple execute queues. If you had been using execute queues to improve performance in 8.1, you may continue to use them after you upgrade your application domains. BEA provides a Use81StyleExecuteQueues flag that enables you to disable the self-tuning execute pool and provide backward compatibility for upgraded applications to continue to use user-defined execute queues. For information about enabling the backward compatibility flag, and configuring and monitoring execute queues, see "Using User-defined Execute Queues" in WebLogic Server Performance and Tuning at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/perform/appb_queues.html.
All JTA domain configuration options are persisted from the legacy configuration file. The only changes are at the server level. As of WebLogic Server 9.0, the Transaction Manager uses the default WebLogic persistent store to store transaction log records. During the upgrade, the Upgrade Wizard copies transaction log records to the default store. The transaction log file prefix from the existing server configuration is used only to locate the transaction log (.tlog) files during an upgrade; it is not preserved after the upgrade.
If the entire domain resides on a single machine, the Upgrade Wizard handles the upgrade (and copies transaction log records to the default store) for all Managed Servers during the initial domain upgrade. If Managed Servers reside on separate machines, you must upgrade each Managed Server individually, as described in Upgrade Your Application Environment.
If you have put your transaction log files in network storage in preparation for Transaction Recovery Service migration, the log file location is not preserved after the upgrade. In this release, the WebLogic Server Transaction Manager uses the WebLogic default persistent store to store transaction log files. You can achieve the same result by moving the location of the WebLogic default persistent store to a network location. Note that you must manually copy the DAT file from the default location of the current default store to the new location of the default store.
If transactions will span multiple domains, you must configure your domain to enable inter-domain transactions. For more information, see "Configuring Domains for Inter-Domain Transactions" in Programming WebLogic JTA at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/jta/trxcon.html#interop.
The following sections identify changes to security.
The Windows NT Authentication provider is deprecated as of WebLogic Server 10.0. Use one or more of the other supported Authentication providers instead.
As of 9.2, WebLogic Server includes two new security providers, the XACML Authorization provider and the XACML Role Mapping provider. Previous releases of WebLogic Server used an authorization provider and a role mapping provider based on a proprietary security policy language. These XACML security providers support the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) 2.0 standard from OASIS. These providers can import, export, persist, and execute policy expressed using all standard XACML 2.0 functions, attributes, and schema elements.
WebLogic domains created using WebLogic Server 10.0 include the XACML providers by default. The new XACML providers are fully compatible with policies and roles created using the WebLogic Authorization provider (DefaultAuthorizer) and WebLogic Role Mapping provider (DefaultRoleMapper). Existing WebLogic domains that you upgrade to 10.0 will continue to use the authorization and role mapping providers currently specified, such as third-party partner providers or the original WebLogic Authorization and Role Mapping providers. If you wish, you can migrate existing domains from using WebLogic Server proprietary providers to the XACML providers, including performing bulk imports of existing policies. For more information, see Security for BEA WebLogic Server 10.0 at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/security.html.
New versions of the SAML Credential Mapping provider and SAML Identity Assertion provider were added in WebLogic Server 9.2. The SAML Credential Mapping V1 provider and SAML Identity Assertion V1 provider are deprecated; you should use the V2 versions of the SAML Credential Mapping and SAML Identity Assertion providers.
Although the version number of the providers has been incremented to V2, the new SAML security providers implement the SAML 1.1 standard, as did the V1 providers.
The following table lists the changes to security MBeans as of WebLogic Server 9.0.
In WebLogic Server 8.1, when you updated a security MBean attribute, the values were available to the security configuration and management hierarchy immediately, and to the security runtime hierarchy following a server reboot.
As of WebLogic Server 9.0, whether a security MBean attribute change is effective and available to the configuration, management, and runtime hierarchies immediately or upon server reboot is controlled by setting that attribute as dynamic or non-dynamic. For more information, see Dynamic Configuration Management.
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To prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data such as passwords, some attributes in configuration MBeans are encrypted. The attributes persist their values in the domain configuration files as an encrypted string. For further security, the in-memory value is stored in the form of an encrypted byte array to help reduce the risk of the password being snooped from memory.
In pre-9.0 releases, you could edit the config.xml file to specify an encrypted attribute, such as a password, in clear-text or encrypted format. In this case, when booted, the WebLogic Server will encrypt the information the next time it writes to the file.
As of WebLogic Server 9.0, when operating in production mode, the password of an encrypted attribute must be encrypted in the configuration files. In development mode, the password of an encrypted attribute can be either encrypted or clear-text.
You can use the weblogic.security.Encrypt command-line utility to encrypt the passwords, as follows:
java weblogic.security.Encrypt
You are prompted to enter a password, and the command returns the encrypted version. Then, copy the encrypted password returned into the appropriate file.
This utility is not just used for passwords in the configuration files. It can also be used to encrypt passwords in descriptor files (for example, a JDBC or JMS descriptor) and in deployment plans. For more information, see "encrypt" in "Using the WebLogic Server Java Utilities" in WebLogic Server Command Reference at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/admin_ref/utils.html.
By default, when an instance of WebLogic Server 10.0 responds to an HTTP request, its HTTP response header does not include the WebLogic Server name and version number. This behavior is different from releases prior to WebLogic Server 9.0.
To have the name and version number included in the HTTP response header when responding to an HTTP request, enable the Send Server Header attribute for the WebLogic Server instance in the Administration Console. The attribute is located on the Server 
ServerName Protocols HTTP tab under the Advanced Options section. Note that enabling this feature may creates a security risk if a possible attacker knows about a vulnerability in the specified version of WebLogic Server.
For more information about ensuring security, see "Securing the WebLogic Security Service" in "Ensuring the Security of Your Production Environment" in Securing a Production Environment at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/lockdown/practices.html.
In pre-9.0 releases of WebLogic Server, anonymous access to MBeanHome was enabled by default. With the security enhancements delivered as of WebLogic Server 9.0, anonymous access to MBeanHome is no longer allowed.
Although doing so is not recommended, you can re-enable anonymous access by specifying the following flag when starting the server:
-Dweblogic.management.anonymousAdminLookupEnabled
As of WebLogic Server 9.0, message-level security in Web Services was enhanced to use the standards-based Web Services Policy Framework (WS-Policy). WS-Policy provides a flexible and extensible grammar for expressing the capabilities, requirements, and general characteristics of entities in an XML Web Services-based system. For more information about WS-Policy, see "Using WS-Policy Files for Message-Level Security Configuration" in Programming Web Services for WebLogic Server at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/webserv/security.html#ws_policy.
In 8.1, the implementation was based on an OASIS implementation of the Web Services Security (WSS) standard. This implementation is supported for backward compatibility, but is deprecated as of 9.0. For more information, see
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wss.
WebLogic Server 8.1 Web Services can be run in 10.0, although the 8.1 Web Services run-time engine has been deprecated as of 9.0.
No web service upgrade is required going from 9.2 to 10.0.
The WebLogic Server 7.0 Web Services need to be upgraded to at least 8.1 in order to run in 10.0. For more information, see "Upgrading WebLogic Web Services" in Programming WebLogic Web Services at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs81/webserv/migrate.html.
BEA strongly recommends that you upgrade, to 10.0, all of your 8.1 Web Services, including any 7.0 Web Services that have been upgraded to 8.1. For information about upgrading your existing 8.1 Web Services, see Upgrading WebLogic Web Services From Previous Releases to 10.0 in WebLogic Web Services: Getting Started.
| Note: | See also Message-Level Security in Web Services. |
The following sections provide important compatibility information for Web applications, JSPs, and Servlets in WebLogic Server 10.0:
For a list of Web application features that are deprecated or are not supported as of WebLogic Server 10.0, see WebLogic Server and WebLogic Express Release Notes.
For WebLogic Server versions 9.2 and later, client requests that use HTTP BASIC authentication must pass WebLogic Server authentication, even if access control is not enabled on the target resource.
The setting of the Security Configuration MBean flag
enforce-valid-basic-auth-credentials determines this behavior. (The DomainMBean can return the new Security Configuration MBean for the domain.) It specifies whether or not the system should allow requests with invalid HTTP BASIC authentication credentials to access unsecured resources.
| Note: | The Security Configuration MBean provides domain-wide security configuration information. The
enforce-valid-basic-auth-credentials flag effects the entire domain. |
The
enforce-valid-basic-auth-credentials flag is true by default, and WebLogic Server authentication is performed. If authentication fails, the request is rejected. WebLogic Server must therefore have knowledge of the user and password.
See Understanding BASIC Authentication with Unsecured Resources in Programming WebLogic Security for complete information.
For WebLogic Server 10.0, backward compatibility for WebLogic Server 9.2 or earlier is supported via the backward-compatible element within the jsp-descriptor element, as described in this section and in
jsp-descriptor in Developing Web Applications, Servlets, and JSPs for WebLogic Server.
JSP 2.1 is supported as of WebLogic Server 10.0. Depending on the version of the Web application (version 2.4 or 2.5) and the setting of the backward-compatible element, Weblogic Server 10.0 also supports JSP 2.0.
See Backwards Compatibility Flags in Developing Web Applications, Servlets, and JSPs for WebLogic Server for important information about the buffer suffix setting and implicit servlet 2.5 package imports.
JSP 2.0 was supported as of WebLogic Server 9.0, and continues to be supported as described in Backwards Compatibility Flags. Please note the following changes to the JSP behavior as required in support of JSP 2.0:
IllegalStateException is thrown when the following command is executed:PageContext.getAttribute(name, PageContext.SESSION_SCOPE)
If you are not concerned about this type of error, you can catch and ignore it.
JspWriterImpl now replaces \n with System.getProperty("line.separator") for each printline function. This replacement causes problems with JSPs that:<%@ page import="com.foo.bar.*" %>
<%@ page import="com.foo.xyz.*" %>
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\r\n is output for each page directive.
When viewed in Internet Explorer, each page directive outputs an empty \r\n and the XML declaration (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>) appears after every new line. Internet Explorer displays an error message indicating that it cannot locate the declaration and that the page cannot be viewed, even though it can be compiled.
To work around any issues caused by changes to JspWriterImpl, you can perform one or both of the following tasks:
<%@ page import="com.foo.bar.*, com.foo.baz.*"
contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8" errorPage="Error.jsp" %>
<param name> tag no longer allows run-time expression values. For example: <jsp:param name="<%= AdminActions.RETURN_LINK %>" value="<%= returnlink %>" />
You can continue to support this feature by disabling the Do not set backwards compatibility flags upgrade option during the domain upgrade, as described in Select Upgrade Options, or enabling the backwardCompatible flag in the weblogic.xml file, as follows:
<jsp-descriptor>
<jsp-param>
<param-name>backwardCompatible</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</jsp-param>
</jsp-descriptor>
As of the Servlet 2.3 Specification from Sun Microsystems, which is downloadable at
http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html#specs, the following syntax is used to define mappings:
/ (forward slash) character indicates the default servlet of the application. The servlet path resolves to the request URI minus the context path; in this case, the path resolves to null.* (asterisk) specifies an extension mapping.
These changes introduce a change in behavior with the following HttpServletRequest methods:
To better illustrate the change in behavior, consider a request /abc/def.html that resolves to ServletA:
To ensure that the path info returned is non-null, replace all occurrences of the / (forward slash) servlet mapping string with /*.
Please note the following changes to XML support as of WebLogic Server 9.0:
weblogic.apache.xerces.*), is deprecated as of 9.0.
You can modify the XML parser that is used by default using the Administration Console. For information about configuring the XML parser, see "Difference In Default Parsers Between Versions 8.1 and 9.0 of WebLogic Server" in Programming WebLogic XML at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/xml/overview.html#deprecated_xerces.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/xml/stax.html. setAttribute and getAttribute methods without some preliminary setup. Specifically, as of 9.0, you must configure a WebLogic Server servlet filter called weblogic.servlet.XMLParsingHelper (deployed, by default, on all WebLogic Server instances) as part of your Web application. For more information, see "Parsing XML Documents in a Servlet" in Programming WebLogic XML at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/xml/programming.html#apps005.
As of 9.0, the XMLBean implementation in WebLogic Server has been moved from an internal BEA library (com.bea.xml) to the Apache open source project (org.apache.xmlbeans).
If you used XMLBeans in your WebLogic Server 8.1 applications, you must perform the following steps:
As of 9.0, the XMLQuery (XQuery) implementation conforms to the following specifications:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xpath-datamodel-20040723.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xquery-20040723.
In WebLogic Server 8.1, the XQuery implementation conformed to XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators—W3C Working Draft 16 August 2002, available from the W3C Web site at
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xquery-operators-20020816. The 2002 XQuery implementation is deprecated as of 9.0.
In most cases, simple XQuery and XPath operations in pre-9.0 code will behave the same in 10.0. To ensure that the XQuery and XPath operations produce the expected results, you can review and/or update the existing XMLObject.selectPath() and XMLObject.execQuery() method calls using one of the following methods:
import org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Path;
XmlObject xo = ?
xo.selectPath(".//c",(new XmlOptions()).put(Path._forceXqr12002ForXpathXQuery));
| Note: | The 2002 XQuery engine is deprecated as of WebLogic Server 9.0, and is available for backward compatibility. It is only used if you specify this parameter. Otherwise, the 2004 XQuery engine is used, by default. |
As of 9.0, the behavior of XMLCursor.moveXML() has changed. In 8.1, a cursor that was inside a moved fragment remained on the original document. As of 9.0, cursors move with fragments.
Due to changes with the MBean hierarchy, BEA does not guarantee that existing configuration and administration scripts (such as WLST, wlconfig, weblogic.Admin, Ant, and so on) will run in 10.0. BEA recommends that you update your scripts to take advantage of the new features provided as of WebLogic Server 10.0. For more information about new features and changes in the MBean hierarchy, see "What's New in WebLogic Server 10.0" in the WebLogic Server and WebLogic Express Release Notes at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/notes/new.html.
For additional information about upgrading your application infrastructure and the scripting tools that have been deprecated, see Step 1: Upgrade Your Application Infrastructure.
This section describes changes in the use of deployment descriptors in a WebLogic Server environment, as of release 9.0:
cmr-field is defined in @ejbgen:relation, but there are no methods tagged with @ejbgen:cmr-field in the Bean class.| Note: | ejbc is deprecated as of WebLogic Server 9.0; you should use appc instead. For more information, see "appc Reference" in Programming WebLogic Enterprise JavaBeans at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/ejb/appc_ejbc.html. |
META-INF\application.xml deployment descriptor is defined as part of the application:<Application Deployed="true" Name="SessionBeanLifeCycleBean"
Path="C:\bea\weblogic70\tools\deployment\ejb" TwoPhase="false">
<EJBComponent Name="CMFinderTestBean" Targets="myserver" URI="CMFinderTestBean.jar"/>
<EJBComponent Name="SessionBeanLifeCycleBean" Targets="myserver"
URI="SessionBeanLifeCycleBean.jar"/>
</Application>
As of 9.0, the META-INF\application.xml deployment descriptor is required if a deployed application defines multiple modules. If this type of deployment descriptor is not provided, the upgrade fails with an error similar to the following:
[J2EE Deployment SPI:260089]Unable to determine type of application at path 'C:\bea\weblogic70\tools\deployment\ejb' and upgrade will not succeed.
When upgrading a domain, make sure that the deployed applications adhere to the proper Java EE application format. For example, if required by the application, make sure that the applications define the META-INF\application.xml and/or META-INF\weblogic-application.xml deployment descriptors.
For more information about the deployment descriptors, see "Enterprise Application Deployment Descriptor Elements" in Developing Applications with WebLogic Server at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/programming/app_xml.html.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/programming/overview.html#ddconverter.
As of 9.0, application-scoped startup and shutdown classes were deprecated in WebLogic Server, in favor of applications that respond to application lifecycle events. BEA recommends that you update your application environment to use the lifecycle events in place of application-scoped and domain-level startup and shutdown classes. For more information, see "Programming Application Lifecycle Events" in Developing Applications with WebLogic Server at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/programming/lifecycle.html.
In WebLogic Server version 9.0, the Administration Console was built on the WebLogic Portal Framework, which makes it more open and more readily extensible. The architecture necessitated new procedures for extending the Administration Console. WebLogic Administration Console extensions built for releases of WebLogic Server prior to 9.0 will not function with the new Console infrastructure.
For more information about extending the Administration Console, see Extending the Administration Console at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/console_ext/index.html.
Version 9.2 of WebLogic Server introduced the following changes to console extensions:
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/beehive-netui-tags-template.tld" prefix="beehive-template" %> As of this release, Administration Console extensions that use these third-party JSP tag libraries from the WebLogic Server installation must use pre-defined, absolute URIs to specify the tag libraries. For example:
<%@ taglib uri="http://beehive.apache.org/netui/tags-template-1.0" prefix="beehive-template" %>
The Administration Console's web.xml file maps these URIs to tag libraries within the WebLogic Server installation. This mapping facility enables BEA to reorganize its installation directory without requiring you to change your JSPs.
Any Administration Console extensions that use the old pathname syntax to import Apache Struts, Apache Beehive, or the JSTL tag libraries must update all pathnames to the new URIs.
The URI for the WebLogic Server Console Extension tag library (console-html.tld) remains unchanged: /WEB-INF/console-html.tld.
For more information, see JSP Templates and Tag Libraries.
WebLogic Portal requires that any explicit Skeleton URI references be fully qualified relative to the webapp. However, the documentation and some of the console extension examples have sometimes used relative references to these skeletons. Consider the following incorrect example:
<netuix:singleLevelMenu markupType="Menu" markupName="singleLevelMenu" skeletonUri="singlelevelmenu_children2.jsp"/>
This example should have been correctly specified as:
<netuix:singleLevelMenu markupType="Menu" markupName="singleLevelMenu" skeletonUri="/framework/skeletons/default/singlelevelmenu_children2.jsp"/>
For this release, relative skeleton URI references will continue to work. However, any console extensions that you have written should be updated to use fully qualified skeleton URIs, as these relative references may no longer function correctly in a future release.
The following table lists the configuration settings for resource adapters that are deprecated or no longer supported. For more information about new features and changes, see "New and Changed Features in This Release" in Programming WebLogic Resource Adapters at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/resadapter/intro.html#features.
This element has been deprecated and replaced by the new Java EE libraries feature. For more information about Java EE libraries, see "Creating Shared J2EE Libraries and Optional Packages" in Developing Applications with WebLogic Server at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/programming/libraries.html.
The Link-Ref mechanism is still supported in this release for resource adapters developed under the J2CA 1.0 Specification. For more information about using the Link-Ref mechanism with 1.0 resource adapters, see "(Deprecated) Configuring the Link-Ref Mechanism" in "Configuring the weblogic-ra.xml File" in Programming WebLogic Resource Adapters at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/resadapter/creating.html#weblogic-ra-xml.
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WLEC was deprecated in WebLogic Server 8.1. WLEC users should move applications to the WebLogic Tuxedo Connector, as described in WLEC to WebLogic Tuxedo Connector Migration Guide at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/wlec_migration/index.html.
The SNMPAgentMBean MBean MibDataRefreshInterval and ServerStatusCheckIntervalFactor attributes are deprecated and are ignored in WebLogic Server 10.0.
The following configuration flags are available to support backward compatibility when you upgrade a domain. By default, these flags are set to support backward compatibility, unless you disable them by selecting the Do not set backwards compatibility flags option during an upgrade, as described in Upgrading a Domain in Graphical Mode.
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SecurityConfigurationMBean at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/wlsmbeanref/mbeans/SecurityConfigurationMBean.html
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This section summarizes APIs that have been deprecated or removed in WebLogic Server 9.0.
| Note: | If you want to rebuild the WebLogic Server 8.1 MedRec application in the 10.0 environment, you must replace references to the weblogic.webservice.tools.wsdlp package with the new package name, weblogic.webservice.wsdl, in two Java files: medrec/src/common/web/com/bea/medrec/utils/MedRecWebAppUtils.java and medrec/src/clients/com/bea/medrec/webservices/swing/EditProfileFrame.java. |
| Note: | The 8.1, 9.0, and 9.2 packages, weblogic.webservice.tools.wsdlp and weblogic.webservice.wsdl, respectively, are not publicly available. |
| Note: | See also Web Services. |
For a list of deprecated APIs, see
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/javadocs/deprecated-list.html.
This section describes the APIs that have been removed in WebLogic Server 9.0, including:
Table B-5 provides a list of APIs that have been deprecated in WebLogic Server 10.0.
The following table provides a list of APIs that have been removed in WebLogic Server 10.0 and were deprecated in WebLogic Server 8.1.
Table B-7 provides a list of APIs that have been removed in WebLogic Server 10.0 and were deprecated in WebLogic Server 7.0.
The following provides a list of APIs that were removed in WebLogic Server 9.0, without being deprecated. Except where indicated, the APIs were removed because the related functionality was no longer supported.
| Note: | In the following table, * (asterisk) represents a wildcard character. |
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