Release Notes for Sun ONE ^TM Application Server, Enterprise Edition

Version 6.5, Maintenance Update 3 for Intel/Windows

Part Number: 816-6435-10

Updated August 26 

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These release notes contain the following sections:

• Installation Notes
• Resolved Issues
• Additional Information

Installation Notes

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Relevant Architecture: Intel

Relevant Operating Systems: Windows NT 4.0 SP6a, Windows 2000 Professional SP2, Windows 2000 Server SP2, Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Files included with this patch:

.\ias\bin\iascontrol.bat
.\ias\bin\gxisapi.dll
.\ias\bin\gxsyb2.dll
.\ias\bin\iASApachePlugin.dll
.\ias\bin\gxdsync.dll
.\ias\bin\gxutil.dll
.\ias\bin\jx2principal2.dll
.\ias\bin\gxagent.dll
.\ias\bin\gxconn.dll
.\ias\bin\gxnsapicli.dll
.\ias\bin\gxsession.dll
.\ias\bin\gxnsapi6.dll
.\ias\classes\java\kfcjdk11.jar
.\ias\classes\java\iasacc.jar
.\ias\classes\java\buzz.jar
.\ias\classes\java\tomcat\jasper.jar

Installation Instructions

1. Install Activestate Perl (ActivePerl) version 5.6.0 or later. You can download it from http://www.activestate.com.

2. Ensure that all application server processes have been shutdown.

3. Ensure that the directory server is running.

4. If the Web server running on the same machine as Sun ONE Application Server, then stop the Web server before installing this update.

5. Become the user who had installed the Sun ONE Application Server you want to patch.

6. Change the working directory to the directory containing the patch.

7. Apply the Update by typing:

   perl .\applypatch

Special Install Instructions

1. If you have not installed the "Core Server Component", "PointBase Database Server", and the "Web Connector plug-in Component", then set the environment variable SPECIAL_INSTALL_OPTS to "-i" before you run applypatch in Step 6, Installation Instructions.

2. If the Webconnector plugin is running on a separate machine, then the Update must be installed on that machine as well. Set the environment variable SPECIAL_INSTALL_OPTS to -i before performing the steps described in Installation Instructions.

3. If you are running Rich clients, ensure that after installing Maintenance Update 3, copy install_dir\ias\classes\java\iasacc.jar to the directory where the Rich client is installed.

Uninstallation Instructions

1. Become the user who had installed the application server installation for which you want to backout the patch.

2. Ensure that all webserver and application server processes have been shutdown.

3. Ensure that the directory server is running.

4. Change working directory to the directory where the backup data is saved. The backup data is saved in a directory named backup_patch number in your Sun ONE Application Server installation directory:

   Example: cd c:\iplanet\ias6\ias\backup_1

   Note: If the Webconnector plugin is installed on a different machine, then you must uninstall the update from the Webconnector directory as well. To restore the old files from the backup directory, follow the steps given under Uninstallation Instructions.

5. You have to manually remove all files in the backup directory after the Maintenance Update uninstallation is over.

   Note: The presence of the backup directory does not affect the reinstallation of the same patch. However you may want to remove the files in the backup directory to save disk space.

6. Ensure that all application server processes have been shutdown.

7. Ensure that the directory server is running.

8. Uninstall the Update by typing:

   perl .\unpatch

Special Uninstallation Instructions

1. Change the working directory to the backup_patch number directory present in your Sun ONE Application Server installation.
2. Copy and rename the file unpatch.bak to unpatch.bat.

3. Run the following command:

   .\unpatch.bat

   This command will restore the files that were patched.

Resolved Issues

Table 1    List of resolved issues

Bug ID	Description
4655813	Nametrans lookup failure while using frames with IIS.
4656570	The form authentication login page is not shown when accessed with POST method.
4656564	Form authentication does not work with GET method.
4550126	ias-cmp with long file names does not perform the lookup and resolve the reference.
4636443	Entity bean callback in ejbRemove throws NoSuchEntityException.
4648579/4641862	Invoking business method in ejbRemove() throws PersistenceException.
4526316	FBA - url parameters are not passed to error page.
4659863	DriverManager.getDriver(url) always returns com.netscape.server.jdbc.Driver.
4640628	HttpBindingListener problems in 6.0SP4, 6.5 and 7.0 SE.
4664501	Inconsistent JSP cache timeout behavior.
4648744	Change not reflected when two JSPs are accessed simultaneously.
4662159	Form-Based Login: In web.xml, value is being misinterpreted.
4629105	java.sql.SQLException: executeQuery returned null resultset.
4664267	Performance improvement in CXS.
4631477	Sybase - stored procedure always returns 0 as output parameter.
4666165	Webconnector configure with Apache server stops writing to access logs.
4666328	Sun ONE Application Server 6.5 throws "Print Writer in use" if it is running in i18n mode.
4665167	RMI - Complex objects in EJB methods throws exceptions with multiple KJS eng.
4660828	Sun ONE Application Server crashed after running 12 hours (approximately).
4668469	Sessions are not timing out from last accessed time.
4607509	Session can be accessed after expiry (timeout).
4664742	Need to port the fix 4634092 into 6.5
4634092	Unable to control remote instance from Admin Tool (Windows NT only).
4660289	RequestDispatcher.include & Declarative Security: InvalidStateException.
4670381	DataSourceImp in Sun ONE Application Server is not serializable.
4673685	Regression: Session Invalidation is not working.
4679265	Specification Violation in 6.5 for Certificate handling.
4696746	KJS crashes while running User Benchmark Stress test using iPM.
4683700	KJS hang issue: JVM unable to process session request.
4643711	Rapid memory growth in KJS.
4653824	500 simultaneous users, 3 times performance degradation for DB search.
4652612	Security in webconnector plugin.
4539234	Deployment tool gives a misleading message in the deploy window even when the deployment tool fails to deploy successfully.
4687707	Exception throws from getAttributeNamesInScopt() method in PageContext.
4655848	Sun ONE 6.5 Japanese- Problem with JSP compilation on Windows 2000.
4665988/4542727	Keeping connection open between Sun ONE Application Server and Sun ONE Web Server.
4667476	Sun ONE + jConnect 5.2 causes SQL Exception - "SET CHAINED command not allowed".
4537060/4678626	Sun ONE Application Server is not load balancing properly in a cluster, after an appserver restart.
4677382/4667562	Garbled <input> tag seen in hidden field being passed to the browser.
4665505	Webconnector crashes when number of characters are less than 5 in SSL_APP_PREFIX.
4672039	MDBs cannot perform resource lookups in either ejbCreate or setMessageDriven.
4538213	iASDT prompts for saving, even if you have not changed anything in ear file.
4626157	Application session hangs in SP4; was working fine in SP3.
4682811	Frame based application resulting in ConcurrentModificationException after apply.
4690245/4668522	Session object is losing data when accessed from two frames at the same time.
4688129	URL re-writing for applogics fails when cookies are disabled.
4688873	Dot in JSP filename is recognized as a package name.
4691475	JSP file locking problem with Sun ONE Application Server 6.5.
4702779	setMaxInactiveInterval API is ineffective w.r.t session timeout.
4537553	HttpSession.invalidate() does not invalidate the session the first time.
4537595	JSP cache size in Admin Tool.
4693291	Using Apache Web server: cgi applications do not work after loading Apache plugin.
4699714	Request path elements wrong for default servlet mapping "/".
4691066	JNDI lookup for EJB reference name does not work in client application.
4709124	Classloading problems with primitive data type for n (n>1) dimensional arrays.
4712157	Session cookies are overwritten prematurely while working with multiple apps.
4689007/4658510	Webconnector logs "info (5242): gxrequest.cpp: gxrequest()...".
4713089	SQL exceptions are thrown from wrong driver when third party jdbc driver is in use.
4725663	Stress test resulted in large KXS memory growth.

Additional Information

• Sun ONE release notes and other documentation - http://docs.sun.com/
• Sun ONE product status http://www.sun.com/service/support/software/iplanet/index.html
• Sun ONE Professional Services information - http://www.sun.com/service/sunps/iplanet/
• Sun ONE developer information - http://developer.iplanet.com/
• Sun ONE learning solutions - http://wwws.sun.com/software/training/
• Sun ONE product data sheets - http://wwws.sun.com/software/

Use of Sun ONE Application Server, Enterprise Edition is subject to the terms described in the license agreement accompanying it.

Copyright © 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

Last Updated August 26, 2002