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Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1 Upgrade Guide
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Preface

1.  GlassFish Server Upgrade Compatibility Issues

2.  Upgrading an Installation of Application Server or GlassFish Server

Upgrade Overview

Upgrade Paths

Upgrade Terminology

Summary of Upgrade Tools and Procedures

Summary of Tools for Performing an Upgrade

Upgrade Tool

Update Tool and the pkg Utility

Software Update Notifier

Summary of Procedure for Upgrading With Upgrade Tool

Summary of Procedure for Upgrading With Update Tool

Summary of Procedure for Upgrading With the Software Update Notifier

Summary of Procedure for Upgrading With the pkg Utility

Supported Releases for Upgrade to GlassFish Server 3.1

Upgrading From Version 8.x or Older Product Releases

Upgrading GlassFish Server Inside a Closed Network

Performing a Side-By-Side Upgrade With Upgrade Tool

Upgrade Tool Summary

Upgrade Tool Functionality

Migration of Deployed Applications

Upgrade of Clusters

Upgrade Verification

To Upgrade From the Command Line Using Upgrade Tool

To Upgrade Using the Upgrade Tool Wizard

Performing an In-Place Upgrade With the Update Center Tools

Update Center Tool Procedures

To Upgrade Using the Update Tool GUI

To Upgrade Using the Software Update Notifier

To Upgrade From the Command Line Using the pkg Utility

Upgrading Installations That Use NSS Cryptographic Tokens

To Prepare for the Upgrade

To Perform Post-Upgrade Configuration

To Upgrade PKCS#11 Hardware Tokens

Upgrading Clusters and Node Agent Configurations

Overview of Cluster and Node Agent Upgrade Procedures

To Correct the Configuration of a Node After an Upgrade

To Re-Create a Cluster

Correcting Potential Upgrade Problems

Cluster Profile Security Setting

Cluster Profile Upgrade on Windows

asupgrade Fails Without Internet Connection

Index

Chapter 2

Upgrading an Installation of Application Server or GlassFish Server

The Upgrade Tool that is bundled with GlassFish Server 3.1 replicates the configuration of a previously installed server in the target installation. The Upgrade Tool assists in upgrading the configuration and applications from an earlier version of the Application Server or GlassFish Server to GlassFish Server 3.1.

In addition to Upgrade Tool, there are three Update Center tools that can be used to perform an in-place upgrade to GlassFish Server 3.1 from GlassFish Server 3.0.1 and Enterprise Server v3. These three Update Center tools are:

Upgrade Tool and the three Update Center tools are explained later in this chapter.

To view a list of the older versions from which you can upgrade, see Supported Releases for Upgrade to GlassFish Server 3.1.

The following topics are addressed here: