Release Notes - GlassFish Server v3.1

Highlighted Features and Fixes in GlassFish Server 3.1.1

Features

• New asadmin subcommands for secure admin
• Support for JDBC 4.1
• Enterprise OSGi support

Fixes

• Fix for asadmin incorrectly parsing create-jvm-options
• Fix for asupgrade failing without an Internet connection

The official Release Notes for GlassFish 3.1.1 are available here (please note that this is a PDF that you will need to download) - http://glassfish.java.net/docs/3.1.1/release-notes.pdf

Highlighted Features in GlassFish Server 3.1

Features

• Clustering support with Java EE 6
• Load Balancing Support
• Transparent JDBC connection pool reconfiguration
• Support for PAM
• Embedded API for EJB solution support

The official Release Notes for GlassFish 3.1 are available here (please note that this is a PDF) - http://glassfish.java.net/docs/3.1/release-notes.pdf

How to upgrade

To upgrade the application, go to the Control Panel > Applications > GlassFish Server v3 > Updates Available -> Update application

As part of the upgrade process, a backup is made of your existing GlassFish domains. If for some reason you need to access this backup, it will be located at /opt/glassfishv3/glassfish/domains_backup060120110948/, where 060120110948 is the Month, Day, Year, and Time.

Once the upgrade completes, you will need to restart the GlassFish server. This can be done from the Control Panel, or from the command line of the Virtual Machine.

Control Panel

To restart GlassFish from the Control Panel, go to System > Service Management > glassfish -> click on Restart Now. This will restart the GlassFish service. The progress of the restart will be shown on the screen.

Command Line

To restart GlassFish from the command line, log in to the Virtual Machine using SSH, and then as the root user run the service glassfish restart command.