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Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.2 Release Notes
Book Information
Chapter 1 Overview
About These Notes
Release Notes Revision History
Accessibility Features
Related Documentation
How to Report Problems and Provide Feedback
Sun Welcomes Your Comments
Additional Sun Resources
Chapter 2 About Application Server Platform Edition 8.2
What’s New in the 8.2 Release
Hardware and Software Requirements
Platform Requirements
System Virtualization Support
Important Patch Information
Solaris Patch Requirements
RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Additional Package Requirements
JDBC Drivers and Databases
Using the Bundled Derby Database
Starting and Stopping the Derby Database
Derby Utility Scripts
To Configure Your Environment to Run the Derby Utility Scripts
Exporting Tables from Pointbase to Derby
Browsers
Upgrading the Sun Java System Application Server
Other Requirements
Bugs Fixed in the 8.2 Release
J2EE Support
Switching to Another Supported J2SE Version
To switch to another supported J2SE version
Chapter 3 Known Issues and Limitations
Administration
The package-appclient script does not work if domain1 is not present. (ID 6171458)
Solution
Cannot restore backed-up domain with another name. (ID 6196993)
Solution
Starting Application Server with additional JMX Agent is not supported. (ID 6200011)
Solution
Cannot redeploy or undeploy the web module that is the default web module of any virtual server. (ID 6204799)
Solution
To change the default web module
FrameworkError exception after deploying a WAR and JAR to PE server via the AMX API in the Application Server GUI. (ID 6201462)
Solution
Java Home Setting inside Configuration does not take effect. (ID 6240672)
Solution
Selector.select() throws IOException. App Server startup fails. (ID 6322825)
Solution
Domain fails to start when create-domain master password has special characters. (ID 6345947)
Solution
Specific Java System Properties are not handled correctly by AS 8.2 Startup. (ID 6372759)
Solution
Application Client
Library JAR packaged in Application Client Archive overwrites MANIFEST file. (ID 6193556)
Solution
Dynamic content technology such as CGI-bin and SHTML functionality not supported. (ID 6373043)
Solution
Database Driver
DB2 Server has connection growing after idle time-out with DB2 Type II driver (ID 2082209/5022904)
Solution
Deploytool
Deploytool often will not create message-destination elements in the following Sun deployment descriptors (ID 6197393):
Solution
To edit an existing JNDI name
“Home” incorrectly translated as “installation directory” in Deploytool for Simplified Chinese. (ID 6203658)
Documentation
Some documented monitoring features do not apply to Platform Edition. (ID 6202255)
Solution
AppservPasswordLoginModule referenced as AbstractPasswordLoginModule in documentation (ID 6229682)
Solution
Incorrect -W short option for --passwordfile in 8.2 PE man pages. (ID 6373588)
Solution
The Javadoc for several AMX interfaces and methods is either missing or incorrect (several IDs):
Documentation on getting a physical Connection from a wrapped Connection is no longer correct (ID 6486123)
Installation
Intermittent failure to render the Next navigation button on installer and uninstaller Welcome screen. (ID 4977191)
Solution
Installation shutdown hanging on some Linux systems after clicking the Finish button. (5009728)
Solution
Intermittent J2SE detection and bootstrap issues in install wrapper on Linux. (6172980)
Solutions
To work around the bootstrap issues on Linux
Application Server does not support NFS.
Solution
Lifecycle Management
After setting the ejb-timer-service property minimum-delivery-interval to 9000, an attempt to set the ejb-timer-service property redelivery-interval-in-mills to 7000 causes the set command to fail with the following error: (ID 6193449)
Solution
Logging
Setting debug statement for access.failure causes hanging in Application Server startup. (ID 6180095)
Solution
Sample Applications
managementws sample needs to update MANIFEST.MF references from castor-0.9.3.9-xml.jar to castor-0.9.9.1.jar. (ID 6363339)
Solution
Security
WS security: appclient container is not properly integrated with JAXRPC client runtime. (ID 6325469)
Solution
Upgrade Utility
Domains created in custom-path other than install_dir/domains directory are not upgraded directly while upgrading from Application Server Platform Edition 8 to Application Server Platform Edition 8.2. (ID 6165528)
Solution
Port conflict when starting domain1 or samples domain after upgrading from 8.0 Platform Edition to 8.2 Platform Edition. (ID 6202188)
Solution
To change the port value
The installer running “Upgrade in place” fails to start upgrade tool on some Linux systems after clicking on the “Start Upgrade Wizard” button. (6207337)
Solution
To use command line installation mode
Garbage characters displayed in Results panel after upgrade (ID 6376140)
Solution
Web Container
Deploying an application using --precompilejsp=true can lock JAR files in the application, causing later undeployment or redeployment to fail. (Windows only) (ID 5004315)
Diagnostics
Solutions
Unable to deploy WAR with Servlet 2.4-based web.xml that contains an empty <load-on-startup\> element. (ID 6172006)
Solution
Unable to compile JSP page on resource constrained servers. (ID 6184122)
Solution
Performance degradation on multi-CPU machines. (ID 6194026)
Solution
Received malformed Fast Infoset documents can disable Fast Infoset support for JAX-RPC deployed services. (ID 6368670)
Solution
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