What's New in GlassFish Portfolio 2009.12

Overall, compared to GlassFish Portfolio 2009.02, updates to the GlassFish Portfolio 2009.12 components primarily comprise product version updates, bug fixes, and minor changes to subscription offerings. No new products have been added.

• New Products

• Product Version Updates

• Modified Subscription Model

• New Download Model

• Expanded Platform Support

• Accessibility Features

New Products

No new products have been added in the update GlassFish Portfolio 2009.12.

Product Version Updates

GlassFish Portfolio 2009.12 includes the new versions of the following products:

• Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server (2.1 ⇒ 2.1.1)

• Sun OpenSSO Enterprise (8.0 ⇒ 8.0U1P2)

• Sun Java System Web Server (7.0U4 ⇒ 7.0U6)

• Sun Java System Web Proxy Server (4.0.8 ⇒ 4.0.11)

• Sun GlassFish Web Space Server (10.0 ⇒ 10.0U6)

• Sun GlassFish Web Stack (1.5)

• Sun Java System Message Queue (4.3)

• HADB (4.4.3-21)

Refer to Table 1–1 for the latest product version numbers.

Modified Subscription Model

The GlassFish Portfolio subscription model has been changed slightly in the 2009.12 release. Specifically, the per-server Platinum level has been dropped. The Platinum Unlimited level is still available.

See GlassFish Portfolio 2009.12 Licensing Formats for complete details about current GlassFish Portfolio licensing options.

New Download Model

GlassFish Portfolio 2009.12 is easier to download and maintain compared to previous versions. Specifically, rather than offering the product as a single ZIP download from eFulfilment and DigitalRiver, there are now pointers to download individual products, making the product installation easier and more flexible.

Expanded Platform Support

GlassFish Portfolio 2009.12 has been tested and approved for the VMware vSphere 4 Virtualized Environment.

Accessibility Features

Most Java ES 7 and GlassFish Portfolio 2009.12 components are designed to support a comprehensive range of United States and international accessibility standards and requirements. These requirements are designed to assure ease of use and full accessibility to all GlassFish Portfolio features for users with various visual and/or physical limitations.

The accessibility features built into and tested with GlassFish Portfolio 2009.12 software include the following:

• All graphical interface elements are fully navigable with the keyboard, including the Tab, arrow, and Enter keys.

• All forms embedded in application pages are friendly to assistive technologies through various methods, such as attaching a label to each form field, or providing an appropriate title or other nonvisual text element to each element.

• Alternative text strings are provided for all non-text elements, including icons, images, and logos.

• All dynamic elements, including Javascript code and menus and pop-up menus with strings that are displayed when a mouse is hovered over them, have embedded text string identifiers that can be read by assistive technologies.

• Product documentation, including PDF and HTML versions, have been written according to accessibility standards.

• Most or all GlassFish Portfolio component products have been tested and are expected to work with a variety of assistive technologies for several operating environments, including:

  • Mac OS X: Universal Access

  • Solaris and OpenSolaris: Orca

  • Linux: Orca

  • Windows: JAWS, System Access