1 Technical Changes and Enhancements

This chapter describes the changes and enhancements made to the Oracle Coherence product for the 3.5.2 release. This document is accurate at the time of publication. Oracle updates the release notes periodically after the software release.

1.1 Oracle Coherence for Java 3.5.2

The following is a list of new features, improvements, and bug fixes in Oracle Coherence for Java 3.5.2:

1.1.1 Coherence*Web Enhancements and Fixes

ClassNotFoundException no longer occurs if multiple web applications are deployed using Application or EAR scoped cluster nodes.
Enhanced Coherence*Web to allow custom attribute serialization.
Enhanced Coherence*Web SPI to use new Coherence and Coherence*Web features in WebLogic 10.3.3.
Fixed the optimistic locking mode to ensure that updates to sessions that have been concurrently invalidated are rejected.

1.1.2 Management Framework Fixes

Reporter now properly starts when Coherence is deployed as a shared library, for example, with Coherence*Web.
Fixed a ClassCastException which could occur when MBeans are removed while Reporter is in the middle of executing a report.

1.1.3 Other Enhancements and Fixes

Enhanced PofExtractor to allow clear indication of expected data type, to ensure that proper results are being returned for certain data types where ambiguity may lead to incorrect results being returned, such as intrinsic numeric data types, primitive arrays, and so on.
Fixed regression in CacheFactory and DefaultConfigurableCacheFactory behavior.
Fixed regression in ContinuousQueryCache.
Improved clarity of Guardian logs on daemon-pool worker thread recovery/termination.
Fixed NPE in Daemon.isGuarded().
Fixed infinite loop in entrySet call during eviction.
Optimized Entry initialization for custom backing maps.
Added hashcode and equals implementation for NotFilter.
Optimized off-heap partition initialization.
Fixed ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in SafeSortedMap.
Enhanced the clarity of configuration files by allowing unit-factor to be specified in units, that is, K, M, G.

1.2 Oracle Coherence for .NET 3.5.2

The following is a list of new features, improvements, and bug fixes in Oracle Coherence for .NET 3.5.2:

Optimized Filter-based cache events to avoid unnecessary reevaluation on the client.
Enhanced PofExtractor to allow clear indication of expected data type, to ensure that proper results are being returned for certain data types where ambiguity may lead to incorrect results being returned, such as intrinsic numeric data types, primitive arrays, and so on.
Fixed regression in ContinuousQueryCache.release() which may have resulted in IllegalStateException.

1.3 Oracle Coherence for C++ 3.5.2

The following is a list of new features, improvements, and bug fixes in Oracle Coherence for C++ 3.5.2:

Enhanced PofExtractor to allow clear indication of expected data type, to ensure that proper results are being returned for certain data types where ambiguity may lead to incorrect results being returned, such as intrinsic numeric data types, primitive arrays, and so on.
Made HashSet's constructors private, to prevent illegal stack based allocation.
Fixed regression in ContinuousQueryCache.release() which may have resulted in IllegalStateException.