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Use the asupgrade utility to migrate the server configration and its persisted state, J2EE services, and deployed J2EE applications. The configuration of an installed Sun Java System Application Server 7 is migrated to the Sun Java System Application Server 8 Application Server
installation. If the domain contains information about a deployed application and the installed application components do not agree with the configuration information, the configuration is migrated as is without any attempt to reconfigure the incorrect configurations.
asupgrade migrates the configuration and deployed applications of a previous version of the Application Server; however, the runtime binaries of the server are not updated. Database migrations or conversions are beyond the scope of the asupgrade command.
Only those instances that do not use the Sun Java System Web Server specific features will be upgraded seamlessly. Configration files related to HTTP path, CGI bin, SHTML, and NSAPI plugins will not be upgraded.
The upgrade process can also be initiated automatically at installation time using the Upgrade checkbox in the Application Server installer. After completion of the upgrade, use the Application Server 7 Uninstaller to remove the previous version of the Application Server.
Application archives (.ear) and component archives (.jar, .war, .rar) that are deployed in the Application Server 7 environment do not require any modification to run on Application Server 8. However applications and components deployed in the source server are repackaged into new J2EE archives
in the target server's autodeploy directory and are deployed upon server startup. Applications that do not deploy successfully, must use Migrationtool (asmigrate) on the application and then manually redeploy the application.
You must specify the source and target directories for the upgrade. If the upgrade includes certificates, you must also provide the passwords for the source PKCS12 file and the target JKS keyfile for each domain that contains certificates to be migrated. Since Application Server 7 uses a different
certificate store format (NSS) than Application Server 8 (JSSE), the migration keys and certificates are converted to the new format. Upon successful upgrade, an upgrate report is generated listing successfully migrated items along with a list of the items that could not be migrated.
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