What's New in Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1

The following new features were introduced in Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1.

• Support for Oracle Access Manager (OAM) integration – Enterprise Server v2.1.1 Patch 7 supports integration with OAM security providers. See Using Oracle Access Manager with Enterprise Server for more information.

• Support for Per Request Load Balancing — Enterprise Server v2.1.1 supports Per Request Load Balancing (PRLB). PRLB is a new method for load balancing stateless EJBs that enables load-balancing for each request to an EJB instance. Per-request load balancing chooses the first node in the cluster to use on each request. By contrast, the older load balancing model chose the first node to use when the InitialContext was created, and each request thereafter used the same node unless a failure occurred.

  PRLB is enabled by means of a new per-request-load-balancing (boolean) property in the sun-ejb-jar.xml file. If this property is not set, the original Load Balancing behavior is preserved.

  See PRLB feature in GlassFish 2.1.1 for more information.

• Support for the Client-Auth REQUESTED SSL value – Enterprise Server v2.1.1 Patch 6 supports the REQUESTED client authentication option. To enable this support, add the following property to the http-listener element for the domain:

  <property name="com.sun.grizzly.ssl.auth" value="want"/>

  For more information, see Client-Auth REQUESTED in GlassFish.

• Grizzly 1.0.30 – In addition to integrating Grizzly 1.0.30, improvements have been made to Grizzly for quicker and more reliable instance failover in Enterprise Server.

• Support for Apache Web Server via the mod_jk plug-in – For more details on how Enterprise Server v2.1.1 supports Apache Web Server, see Web Stack Support.

• Support for JSF 1.2_13 –Enterprise Server v2.1.1 supports JSF 1.2_13.

• Support for Jersey 1.0.3 –Enterprise Server v2.1.1 supports Jersey 1.0.3.

• Support for Sun GlassFish Message Queue 4.4 – Enterprise Server v2.1.1 supports Sun GlassFish Message Queue 4.4. For more details, see Message Queue Versions.

• Bug fixes and enhancements – To view the complete list of bugs fixed in the release, see the GlassFish IssueTracker and bugs.sun.com.

• Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1 is equivalent to Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1 patch 06, which is available from SunSolve.