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Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2 Release Notes
Book Information
Chapter 1 Overview
About These Notes
Release Notes Revision History
Application Server Documentation Set
Related Documentation
Accessibility Features
Documentation, Support, and Training
How to Report Problems and Provide Feedback
Sun Welcomes Your Comments
Chapter 2 About Application Server Enterprise 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 Java DB Database
Starting and Stopping the Java DB Database
Java DB Utility Scripts
To Configure Your Environment to Run the Java DB Utility Scripts
Exporting Tables from Pointbase to Java DB
Supported Web Servers
Browsers
HADB Requirements and Supported Platforms
Supported Platforms
HADB Server Host Requirements
HADB Management Host Requirements
HADB Client Host Requirements
Upgrading the Sun Java System Application Server
Other Requirements
Bugs Fixed in the Enterprise Edition 8.2 Release
Additional HADB Information
HADB Enhancements
HADB File System Support
Upgrading the High Availability Database
Pre-upgrade Tasks/Data Migration
Upgrade Procedure
Testing the Upgrade
Special Deployment and Upgrade Information
Deployment
Online Upgrade from 4.4.1 to 4.4.2
Known SQL Limitations
High Availability Load Balancing
Compatibility Issues
Deploytool
Verifier
Classloader Changes
Web Service Security Configuration
J2EE Support
Switching to Another Supported Java Version
To switch to another supported Java version
High Performance
Scalability
JavaServer Faces 1.1 Support
Chapter 3 Known Issues and Limitations
Administration
The package-appclient script does not work if domain1 is not present. (ID 6171458)
Description
Solution
Installing the Load Balancing Plugin will overwrite an existing plugin. (ID 6172977)
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Solution
Several Changes in asadmin script in JES3 Application Server 8.2 compared to JES2 AS7 (ID 6189433, 6189436)
Default ports changed in Application Server (ID 6198555)
Description
Solution
Cannot restore backed-up domain with another name. (ID 6196993)
Description
Solution
Starting Application Server with additional JMX Agent is not supported. (ID 6200011)
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Solution
On UNIX, overly restrictive execute permissions on Application Server start and stop scripts. (ID 6206176)
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Solution
Load balancer configuration file does not get created with the endpoint URL of any web service. (ID 6236544, 6275436)
Description
Solution
Java Home Setting inside Configuration does not take effect. (ID 6240672)
Description
Solution
Application Server restart using sun-appserv-admin causes LoginException error. (ID 6288893)
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Solution
The .asadmintruststore file is not described in the Application Server documentation. (ID 6315957)
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Solution
Domain fails to start when create-domain master password has special characters. (ID 6345947)
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Solution
Load Balancer configuration changes in magnus.conf and obj.conf get overwritten (ID 6394181)
Description
Solution
Unable to start server instance on Txxxx series (Niagara) machines. (6860787)
Description
Solution
Apache and Load Balancer Plugin
The High-Availability Administration Guide contains incorrect instructions for using openssl with Apache. (ID 6306784)
The High-Availability Administration Guide does not contain instructions for using a certificate for Apache 2.0. (ID 6307976)
Must start Apache Web Server as root. (ID 6308021)
Addition to instructions for using openssl with Apache Web Server 2.0 on Solaris. (ID 6308043)
Application Client
Library JAR packaged in Application Client Archive overwrites MANIFEST file. (ID 6193556)
Description
Solution
Dynamic content technology such as CGI-bin and SHTML functionality not supported. (ID 6373043)
Description
Solution
Bundled Sun JDBC Drivers
Applications using the TRANSACTION_SERIALIZABLE isolation level with the bundled Sun driver for Microsoft SQL Server may hang when using a prepared statement to update if two parallel transactions are running and one of them is rolled back. (ID 6165970)
PreparedStatement Errors. (ID 6170432)
Description 1
Solution 1
Description 2
Solution 2
Description 3
Solution 3
Problems setting isolation level with the bundled Sun driver for Sybase Adaptive Server. (ID 6189199)
Description
Solution
On Solaris 10 and Enterprise Linux 3.0, the Sun bundled Oracle JDBC driver does not allow the creation of a connection. (ID 6247468)
java.lang.SecurityException: Sealing violation exception (ID 6554602)
Description
Solution
Connectors
After restarting a DAS instance, undeploying the connector module fails when cascade is set to false. (ID 6188343)
Description
Solution
JMS create-jms-resource; CLI doesn't set the default values correctly (ID 6294018)
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Solution
Documentation
Javadoc Inconsistencies. (Various IDs)
Bundled ANT throws java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. (ID 6265624)
Description
Solution
Logging options documentation incorrect (ID 6463965)
Conflicting information regarding HTTP file cache feature in Application Server 8.2 (ID 6474799)
Documentation on getting a physical Connection from a wrapped Connection is no longer correct (ID 6486123)
High Availability
HADB Configuration with Double Networks. (No ID)
HADB Database Creation Fails. (No ID)
Description
Solution
Shared memory segments locked and cannot be paged out. (ID 5052548)
Description
Solution
hadbm set does not check resource availability (disk and memory space). (ID 5091280)
Description
Solution
Heterogeneous paths for packagepath not supported. (ID 5091349)
Description
Solution
createdomain may fail. (IDs 6173886, 6253132)
Description
Solution
Directories need to be cleaned up after deleting an HADB instance. (ID 6190878)
Description
Solution
Starting, stopping, and reconfiguring HADB may fail or hang. (IDs 6230792, 6230415)
Description
Solution
The management agent terminates with the exception "IPV6_MULTICAST_IF failed". (ID 6232140)
Description
Solution
clu_trans_srv cannot be interrupted. (ID 6249685)
Description
Solution
hadbm does not support passwords containing capital letters. (ID 6262824)
Description
Solution
Downgrading from HADB Version 4.4.2.5 to HADB Version 4.4.1.7 causes ma to fail with different error codes. (ID 6265419)
Description
Solution
Install/removal and symlink preservation. (ID 6271063)
Description
Solution
Management agents in global and local zones may interfere. (ID 6273681)
Description
Solution
hadbm/ma should give a better error message when a session object has timed out and deleted at MA. (ID 6275103)
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Solution
Non-root users cannot manage HADB. (ID 6275319)
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Solution
The Management Agent should not use special-use interfaces. (ID 6293912)
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Solution
Reassembly failures on Windows. (ID 6291562)
Description
Solution
When running hadbm start <db_name>, part of the inputted password is displayed without being masked. (ID 6303581, 6346059, 6307497)
Description
Solution
JES5 HADB installed in Global Zone not accessible from Sparse Local Zones (ID 6460979)
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Solution
Installation
Installation shutdown hanging on some Linux systems after clicking the "Finish" button. (ID 5009728)
Description
Solution
On Windows, the imq directory needs to be created during installation. (ID 6199697)
Description
Solution
Application Server cannot be set up on RHLAS 3.0 and RHLAS 4.0 without compat-libstdc++. (ID 6396102)
Description
Solution
lbplugin (libpassthrough.so) can not be used when server is running in 64-bit mode (ID 6480952)
Description
Solution
Cannot run asant deploy: “The input line is too long” (Windows 2000) (ID 6485174)
Description
Solution
JES5 b12, AS installation, in common.properties wrong server instance AppServer1 (ID 6485254)
Description
Solution
Documentation on getting a physical Connection from a wrapped Connection is no longer correct (ID 6486123)
Application Server does not support NFS. (6396045)
Solution
J2EE Tutorial
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)
Description
Solution
Logging
Setting debug statement for access.failure causes hanging in Application Server startup. (ID 6180095)
Description
Solution
Logging location/Instance location have changed for JES3 Application Server. (ID 6189409)
Message Queue
JMS reconnection does not successfully complete in certain cases that are timing dependent. (IDs 6173308, 6189645, 6198481, 6199510, 6208728)
Description
Solution
Asynchronous message listener behavior changed in appclient from 8.0 to 8.1 Update 2. (ID 6198465)
Description
Solution
Monitoring
Cannot change connector service and connector connection pool monitoring level. (ID 6089026)
Description
Solution
Some of the HTTP Service monitoring statistics do not present useful information and should be ignored. (ID 6174518)
Monitoring MBean for an undeployed EJB module is not removed, even though all statistics under that monitoring name are moved. (ID 6191092)
Description
Diagnostics
Solution
Persistence
JDO76018: Unable to flush persistent instances due to circular dependencies. (ID 6500961)
Description
Solution
PointBase
Setting the isolation levels on a connection pool for an application causes exceptions in PointBase. (ID 6184797)
Description
Solution
PointBase throws an exception if a network server and embedded drivers are used together. (ID 6204925)
Description
Solution
Upgrade problem where the default PointBase database is overwritten. (IDs 6264969, 6275448)
Description
Solution
Samples
On Windows, setup-one-machine-cluster hangs but works on Solaris; mqfailover requires Ctrl+C to cancel and then must be re-run. (ID 6195092)
Description
Solution
Documentation does not explicitly state that you need to create JMS resources before running the MQ Failover Sample Application following the asadmin deploy instructions. (ID 6198003)
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Solution
On Linux, a runtime error is displayed during certificate creation in web services/security samples. (ID 6198239)
Description
Solution
Sample documents missing after upgrade from 8.0 Platform Edition to 8.2 Enterprise Edition
Description
Solution
Samples fail at runtime when run in Sparse local zone. (ID 6460970)
Description
Solution
Security
Cannot run WebServiceSecurity applications on Enterprise Edition with J2SE 5.0. (ID 6183318)
Description
Solution
SSL termination is not working. (ID 6269102)
Description
Solution
Upgrade Utility
Domains created in custom-path other than install_dir/domains directory are not upgraded directly while upgrading from Application Server Enterprise Edition 8 to Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2. (ID 6165528)
Description
Solution
The installer running “Upgrade in place” fails to start upgrade tool on some Linux systems after clicking on the “Start Upgrade Wizard” button. (6207337)
Description
Solution
To use command line installation mode
Self-signed certificate is not trusted during and after upgrade from 8.0 Platform Edition (PE) to 8.1 Enterprise Edition (EE) UR2. (ID 6296105)
Port conflict after upgrading Application Server from JES2 to JES5
Description
Solution
Derby database used by samples script is created under wrong location. (ID 6377804)
Description
Solution
LoginException during upgrade from 8.0UR1PE to 8.2EE; upgrade process aborts (ID 6445419)
Description
Solution
Upgrade Tool fails to detect existing but invalid directory input for Source Directory field (ID 6460122)
Description
Solution
Should invalidate Admin user/password name for semi-column (;) character (ID 6473341)
Description
Solution
Steps are missing for successful side-by-side upgrade. (6898037)
Web Container
On Windows, deploying an application using --precompilejsp=true can lock JAR files in the application, causing later undeployment or redeployment to fail. (ID 5004315)
Description
Diagnostics
Solution
Unable to deploy WAR with Servlet 2.4-based web.xml that contains an empty <load-on-startup> element. (ID 6172006)
Description
Solution
Unable to compile JSP page on resource constrained servers. (ID 6184122)
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Solution
Application Server does not support auth-passthrough Web Server 6.1 Add-On. (ID 6188932)
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Solution
HTTP listener created with --enabled=false doesn't disable the listener. (ID 6190900)
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Redeployment on Windows fails because verify_file_user_exists_common does not get executed. (ID 6490227)
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