GlassFish - World's first Java EE 7 Application Server


GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1 Milestone 4 (End date 08/18/10)

Demo Topics

  • Installer/Configurator - Sathyan
  • Transaction recovery - Tx team
  • Application scoped resources - Resources team
  • Cluster security - Security team
  • EJB timer failover - EJB team
  • Preferred fail-over instance by loadbalancer - LB team
  • Support for conventional clustering of MQ brokers in EMBEDDED broker mode - JMS team
  • Improve MQ conventional clustering with master broker - JMS team
  • Metro HA (RM and SC session failover) - Metro team
  • IIOP load balancing - IIOP team
  • Upgrade from 2.1.x - Upgrade team
  • High availability (modified attributes) - HA team

Note - Red highlighted items are Milestone drivers

Basic Clustering

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
07. MS4 INFRA-009 manual sync Yes Issue 12120
Implemented - need to add dev tests
12. MS4 INFRA-013 create-service Yes Issue 12125
Completed

Configuration

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
05a. MS4 (8/18) CONFIG-001a Password dealiasing Yes Issue 11868
Completed
06. MS4 (8/18) CONFIG-007 Lazy parsing of domain.xml Yes Issue 12021
Completed - no further work required
07. MS4 (8/18) CONFIG-003 No startup regression Yes Issue 12022
Deferred to MS 5
08. MS4 (8/18) CONFIG-008 Cluster config with no cluster software Yes Issue 12023
Completed

Synchronization

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
09. MS4 (8/18) SYNC-009 Leverage SSH May be Issue 12029
being deferred to a future release
10. MS4 (8/18) SYNC-005 DAS scaling with multiple servers Yes Issue 4357
In progress - will continue in MS 5
11. MS4 (8/18) SYNC-001 Sync during startup over SSL Yes Issue 12028
Completed

Dynamic Reconfiguration

Item # Date/Milestone Feature ID Description QA/Docs Handover Status/ Comments
08. MS4 DYREC-002 Show 'restart required' status for each server instance. If a server instance needs to be re-started, this status will reflect that Yes Issue 12034
Completed
12. MS4 DYREC-006 Show a list of changes that were not dynamic and/or failed for some reason during dynamic re-config. This list will help system administrators to determine why a server instance should be re-started Yes Issue 12034
Completed
13. MS4 DYREC-005 Provide --target support for infrastructure related CLIs Yes Issue 12038
Complete test and verification for all listed infrastructure commands
Completed
14. MS4 DYREC-008 Provide detailed diagnostics to debug dynamic reconfiguration related failures in customer environment Yes Issue 12039
Complete Implementation
Completed

Deployment

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover Status / Comments
10. Milestone 4 (08/18) DPLY-006 Deployment infrastructure support for other modules No On going
12. Milestone 4 (08/16) DPLY-001 Remaining tasks on clustering deployment (advanced features, corner cases) Yes Completed
13. Milestone 4 (08/16) DPLY-001 Rolling Upgrade Yes Completed
14. Milestone 4 (08/18) DPLY-004 Partial support for weblogic-application.xml Yes Completed
15. Milestone 4 (08/18) DPLY-004 Remaining tasks on the deployment framework to support WebLogic deployment descriptors (expose WebLogic DD to GUI/tools and error handling etc) No Completed
16. Milestone 4 (08/18) DPLY-005 Specific changes in each area to rename the sun specific deployment descriptor Yes Completed
17. Milestone 4 (08/16) DPLY-007 Support versioning for EE application commands (create-application-ref etc) and other advanced aspects of the versioning (quiescing etc) Yes Completed
18. Milestone 4 (08/18) DPLY-007 Expose versioning through GUI No Deferred to MS 5

App Client Container

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover Status / Comments
4. Milestone 4 (08/18) RC-2 Exploration of indexing of JARs to optimize Java Web Start launches no The feature might not work in Java Web Start itself as we need it to. If it does it would help optimize Java Web Start launches. Update 7/19: Does not seem to have the desired effect.
Completed - done as much as possible
6. Milestone 4 (08/18)   Support WLS DDs No won't do per Adam L

Connectors, Pooling, Resources, JDBC

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID QA/Docs Handover? Description Dependencies Status / Comments
JCA-3 MS4 Application scoped resources YES   deployment, naming, CLI, GUI In Progress (80% completion for MS-4)
    glassfish-resources.xml sniffer, deployer mechanisms for standalone, composite archives       Completed
    Hong : deployment infrastructure related support for providing <application> as part of "meta-data"       Completed
    Hong : CLI support for --subcomponents to list-applications       Completed
    CLI support for --resources to list-applications       Completed
    CLI support for ping, flush connection pool       Completed
    CLI support for GUI ease of use API exposed as hidden CLIs       Completed
    Connector/Resources runtime support to use "pool-info" and "resource-info" instead of "pool-name" and "resource-name"       Completed
    Naming Manager related API to bind/unbind/lookup from application's and module's namespace       Completed
    Listener to <resources> elements in <application> and <module> so as to listen to config changes, application/application-ref enable/disable events       Completed
    Resource recovery handler related changes to handle application, module scoped resources       Completed
    Validation for resource conflicts and duplicates       Completed
    Monitoring support for application, module scoped resources       Deferred to MS 5
    Misc. validation during resource config creation       Deferred to MS 5
    "preserve-app-scoped-resources" property support during redeploy       Deferred to MS 5
JCA-7 MS4 Statement leak detection and reclaim YES   CLI, GUI COMPLETED
JCA-10 MS4 Monitoring probes for connections usage by applications YES To provide monitoring statistics of a connection pool grouped by application CLI, GUI COMPLETED
JCA-11 MS4 Transparent dynamic reconfiguration of jdbc-resources   Avoid redeployment of applications that refer the jdbc-resource (jdbc-connection-pool)   COMPLETED
JCA-14 MS4 Use sql-tracing to diagnose and display most frequently used SQL queries YES   CLI, GUI COMPLETED
JCA-19 MS4 Introspection of JDBC drivers support in CLI interactive mode YES   CLI Deferred to MS 5

Security

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
05. MS4 (8/18) SEC-001 Enhanced Security for Master password Yes (QA understands what needs to be tested) DONE
06. MS4 (8/18) SEC-002 Cleanup universal grants in server.policy Yes (QA understands what needs to be tested) DONE
07. MS4 (8/18) SEC-016 Security related CLI support for 3.1 Yes (QA already testing this feature) DONE. All commands work, but wanted to use UndoableCommand for change-admin-password and change-master-password and started some experiments. However we discovered later that these two commands only update the password at DAS and cross checked with V2 that the behavior is same there. So we removed the support for --target for these two commands in line with V2.
– MS4 Policy alternatives in Metro   Yes (QA handoff completed) DONE
08. MS4 (8/18) SEC-017 Making DevTests or a subset of it work in Embedded Mode NA No visible effect for QA, moved to MS5, resolved all major issues in embedded mode security with Siraj and Marina.
09. MS4 (8/18) SEC-021 ORB restructuring, fixing a long-standing concurrency issue QA needs to verify the fix for CR 6913736 after it is fixed Changed the Priority with justification to match the Priority of the bug being addressed CR6913736 , Started working on the issue, may move to MS5 before we can make a proper fix for it
10. MS4 (8/18) SEC-005 WebLogic Deployment Descriptor Support Yes (Devtest ready) DONE. Was planned for MS5 but WebContainer team had dependencies on this and wanted us to move this to MS4. Checked in the required things from a webcontainer dependency perspective.

SSH Provisioning

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
6 MS4 SSHPRO-001, 6-8 dev tests for: ssh client library and API Yes TBD
8 MS4 SSHPRO-003 dev tests for: remote create/delete instance Yes Partial. Dev tests incomplete. Will continue work for MS 5.
9 MS4 SSHPRO-004 dev tests for: remote start/stop instance Yes Partial. Dev tests incomplete. Will continue work for MS 5.
10 MS4 SSHPRO-005 dev tests for: remote start/stop cluster Yes Partial. Dev tests incomplete. Will continue work for MS 5
11 MS4 SSHPRO-015 Console integration Yes Completed
13 MS4 SSHPRO-016 Handle upgrade of node/node-agents Yes Completed
Pulled in from MS 5
15 MS4 SSHPRO-010 Support SSH password authentication Yes Completed
Pulled in from MS 5
15b MS4 SSHPRO-018 Support encrypted key file with SSH public key authentication Yes Completed

Transaction Recovery

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
1 M4 TX-001 Manual delegated transaction recovery with shared file system Yes Completed
2 M4 TX-002 Support for --target option for existing CLIs Yes Completed

RESTful Administration API

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
01. MS4 REST-001 Cluster management Yes REST support for clustering depends on the implementation of the clustering CLI commands see (Clustering Project )
Completed
03. MS4 REST-003 Expose REST endpoints dynamically (work starts in MS1) Yes Completed

JMX

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
JMX002-1 : SSL Support
Milestone 4 JMX002     Pending. Grizzly integration was done. Focus was more on ASARCH AIs. Deferred to MS 5
JMX004-1 : AMX management in clusters
Milestone 4 JMX004   Yes Deferred to MS 5
JMX004-2 :AMX based monitoring support for remote instances
Milestone 4
JMX004
    Deferred to MS 5
JMX001-1 :JSR77 support in a Cluster
Milestone 4
JMX001
    Completed. Mejb behavior being clarified

Administration Console

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
  MS4 GUI-001 Application Tab for Clusters and Standalone Instance (Listing/Deploy/Undeploy for specific target) Yes Deferred to MS 5
  MS4 GUI-001 Application Listing of SubComponents Yes Deferred to MS 5
  MS4 GUI-001 Config Pages:  Finish  Conversion Yes Handoff completed on Aug 31.
  MS4 GUI-001
Administration Password Yes Issue 13185
  MS4 GUI-002 Resources Pages:   Finish Conversion;  Add Target Support for Creation; Add Target Tabs for editing Yes Handoff completed on Aug 30.
  MS4 GUI-001 JMS Support:   JMS Hosts,  Physical Dest tab for Cluster and standalone Instances; Connection Factories and Resources Yes Handoff completed on Sep 01.
  MS4 GUI-001 Switch to JSON from XML (REST API) No Completed
  MS4 GUI-002 Application Launching Yes Deferred to MS 5

Logging & Diagnostics

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments / Dependencies
07. MS4 LOG-007 Log viewer integration for remote instance Yes Back-End code changes are done.
GUI changes are pending - will be done in MS 5.
09. MS4 LOG-009 More search options for Log Viewer Yes New Search option like "Any Search" is added. Back-End code changes are done.
GUI changes are pending - will be done in MS 5

DAS Recovery

Installer

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
#5 MS4 INST-005 Support installations on HPUX platform YES Might require bug fixes in OpenInstaller. Acquired a HpUX VM image on 08/12/10. PUSHED to MS5 as the OpenInstaller code changes are not trivial.
#6 MS4 INST-006 Support for setting up a cluster during installation YES Presented a proposal, will implement this feature as part of support for creating a clustered instance through installer. COMPLETED
#7 MS4 INST-007 Installation types support(custom,complete,typical) YES Based on PM feedback from planning meeting on 07/28/10, basic/expert user type and for expert user different install types(configure, install, configure+install) and configure types(create domain, standalone or clustered instance) will be supported. COMPLETED
#8 MS4 INST-001 Support creation of service for local-instance(s) NO DROPPED per PM feedback from planning meeting on 07/28/10.
#9 MS4 INST-004,INST-007 Support configure only installation type. YES COMPLETED
#10 MS4 INST-007,INST-008 Support basic/expert install user types. YES COMPLETED
#11 MS4 INST-008 Automatically start domain upon creation. YES COMPLETED
#12 MS4 INST-006 Support for creating a clustered instance YES COMPLETED
#13 MS4 INST-001 Extend existing create-service support to Linux and Mac. YES The admin support for create-service command is also scheduled to be completed in MS4. Refer:https://github.com/javaee/glassfish/issues/12125, PUSHED to MS5, Service creation on Mac will not be supported by admin backend.

Packaging

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
5 Milestone 4 PKG-004 Clustering and in-memory replication packages should be optional No Completed. Requires ongoing monitoring for dependency regressions.
6 Milestone 4 PKG-005 Clustering and in-memory replication packages can be removed from the install image at any time No Completed. Requires ongoing monitoring for regressions.
7 Milestone 4 PKG-001 - PKG-005 QA/Docs handover for all 3.1 packaging features Yes Will happen at next week's iTeam meeting  

Upgrade

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
4. M4 UPGRADE-002 Upgrade from 3.0.X Yes Upgrade from 3.0.X is complete.
5. M4 UPGRADE-001 Upgrade from 2.1.X Yes Upgrade tasks are complete except for a couple known issues in some submodules. Testing and documentation will proceed.
6. M4 UPGRADE-003 In place (update) from 3.0.X Yes Is complete if update center is ready.
7. M4 UPGRADE-004 Upgrade tool bug fixes Yes Deferred to MS 5

Build

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
03. MS4 Build-003 JavaDocs N/A Defer to MS 5
04. MS4 Build-004 RI Source bundle N/A RI binary is complete except from Shoal artifact not removed from RI. See 12850. RI source will be part of the source build.
05. MS4 Build-005 Build from source N/A Defer to MS 5

In-memory Session Replication: High Availability

Item # Date / Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Issue# Status
1 MS 4 HA-8 Improved logging for tracking replication messages Docs: NO, QA: NO 12229 Completed
Note: This is really an internal task to improve log messages.
2 MS 4 HA-4 Support load() and save() operations on a restarted instance QA: Yes, Docs: No 12232 Completed
3 MS 4 HA-9 Monitoring Stat Providers
12233 Deferred to future release
4 MS 4 HA-10 Performance improvement work Docs: NO, QA: Yes 12234 On going - will continue into MS 5
5 MS 4 HA-13 Support for Asyncronous replication and batching for improved performance.
New feature requested during ASArch review 		Docs: Yes, QA: Yes 13060 Completed

Shoal Group Management Service (GMS) for Runtime Clustering Services

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
07 M4(8/18) GMS-08 gfit 12195 multicast enabled diagnostic utility YES more packaging and documenting than an engineering effort
Completed
08 M4(8/18) GMS-09 gfit 12194 Monitoring Stat Providers YES message throughput, thread utilitization, number of detect SUSPECTED, number of FAILURES
Deferred to MS 5 due to unexpected regressions and additional unscheduled work/bug fixes.
09 M4(8/16) GMS-10 gfit 12563 Upgrade from v2.1 cluster and group-management-service element's attributes/properties to v3.1 cluster/group-management-server YES  
Completed
12 M4 GMS-06 GFIT 12193 asadmin get-heatlth cluster or clustered-instance YES implement CLI cmd leveraging existing GMS API get_member_status().
get-health command completed

Webtier

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
3 Milestone 4 WEB-3 Dev Tests for Integration of HA container SPI, support for modified attributes, etc. Yes Completed.
Modified attribution support has an issue - GMS bug
2 Milestone 4 - ongoing see task list for details WEB-2 Support WebLogic specific deployment descriptors Yes Support weblogic.xml
Completed
5 Milestone 4 WEB-5 Web Embedded Yes Formalize the APIs and finish remaining work
Deferred to MS 5
6 Milestone 4 WEB-6 Servlet spec related changes based on MR Yes Deferred to MS 5

EJB

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status/Comments
1 Milestone 4 EJB-1 SFSB Checkpointing YES Depends on HA store implementation and admin/deployment cluster support.
issue 12200 Completed.
open issue - GMS bug
2 Milestone 4 EJB-2 EJB Timer Cluster/Failover support YES Depends on admin/deployment cluster support and GMS
issue 12201 Completed.
Bug found: issue 13052 - automatic timers fail delivery after migration to another instance (either CLI or automatic failover). RESOLVED

IIOP Clustering

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status/Comments
IIOP-1 MS 4   Remove rename of objectweb packages; add dependency on GlassFish ASM bundle to POM files NA Dropping
IIOP-8 MS 4   Plug in GMS in 3.1 using injection in orb-iiop code. Fix problems in ORB FOLB test. Initial testing of FOLB. Integrate old IIOP load balancing code with naming in 3.1 No code is integrated, but GF changes are not yet tested (not done)
IIOP-9 MS 4   Develop some simple tests for FOLB in the cluster test framework Yes tests and verification of IIOP FOLB changes in GF 3.1 is not done
IIOP-12 MS 4 IIOP-12 Timing and tracing improvements No Completed

JMS and Message Queue

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
06 M4 JMS-13 Integration with IBM Websphere MQ through GenericJMSRA Yes Completed and handed over to QA
08 M4 JMS-10 Support for conventional clustering of MQ brokers in EMBEDDED broker mode Yes Completed
09 M4 JMS-12a Improve MQ conventional clustering with master broker Yes Completed
14 M4 JMS-24 Glassfish issue 11721 (GF does not allow all required passwords to be passed to managed MQ broker) Yes Completed in MS4 as a part of JMS 12a. Was a MS5 task.

Metro

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status /Comments
  MS4 (8/18) METRO-001 Policy alternatives in security Yes DONE
  MS4 (8/18) METRO-002 Metro HA (RM and SC session failover) Yes RM+NonceManager: DONE
SC: expected code-complete date 8/23
  MS4 (8/18) METRO-004 Mavenization/modularization NA
Deferred to MS 5
  MS4 (8/18) METRO-006 Support for Error Handling in WS-Trust spec QA : No
DONE
  MS4 (8/18) METRO-010 wsimport -clientjar option QA : No
DONE

Loadbalancer

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
5 MS4 LBREC-004 Preferred fail-over instance Yes Completed

Developer Tooling with NetBeans

Task Target Milestone Start End Owner Supports Feature ID Status/Comments
write test suite for app scoped resources m4 july july vbk nbinteg-003 found different solution - task dropped
resurrect sun-resources.xml inclusion code for 3.1 plugin m4 July July vbk nbinteg-003 found different solution - task dropped
extend log viewer to get data from remote server m4 aug aug vbk nbinteg-006 *dependency:* an api from the server
Completed
open the log viewer when deploying to remote servers, etc.. m4 aug aug vbk nbinteg-006 allows users to see results of actions on remote instance
Completed

Eclipse WTP

No deliverables planned for MS 4

Embedded

Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
MS4 EMB-2-4 embedded + security   Depends on SEC-017
Deferred to MS 5
MS4 EMB-1 Embedded APIs   Collect community input, asarch review, make changes if necessary. ASArch review scheduled for 9/8/10. Deferred to MS 5
MS4 EMB-2-1 embedded + web   Depends on WEB-5
Deferred to MS 5

Dev Test Framework

No deliverables planned for MS 4

JSF

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
3 8/18 M4 JSF-002 Performance enhancements no Completed
4 8/18 M4 JSF-003 High priority ADF issues no All ADF requested issues fixed and a drop delivered to ADF, some non-ADF requested issues planned for MS4 have been deferred to MS 5

Grizzly

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
7 Milestone 4 Grizzly-7 Atmosphere on update center No Will remove this task
3 Milestone 4 Grizzly-2 Shoal related changes No Currently no requests from Shoal team - no changes required for MS 4. Will carry over to MS 5

OSGi

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
02 M3 OSGi-02 Embeddable GlassFish No Completed
05 M4 OSGi-05 Generic OSGi Features No delayed - will be done post MS 4

Persistence

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
5 M4 (08/16) PER-002 Better alignment with Embedded Yes Finish support for @DSD Issue 12246
deferred to MS 5

Jersey

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
3. MS 4 3 Use the GlassFish 3 embedded API No NOT DELIVERED in MS 4 – blocked by https://github.com/javaee/glassfish/issues/11727 (can't use embedded glassfish maven plugin for testing); integrating embedded glassfish into jersey test framework failed - problem with rebundled Jersey ServiceFinder implementation
4. MS 4 4 Improved CDI and JAX-RS integration No Not Completed.
Blocked on a Weld proxy issue with CDI Extensions. Sivia has a reproducible test case using Jersey. Worked around the issue until fixed.
Additionally blocked on some regressions that have now been fixed.
Once workaround/fixes have been completely verified by Hudson tests we will update GF with Jersey build 1.4-06ea.
5. MS 4 5 Improved JSON support using Jackson No Completed.
6. MS 4 6 Jersey with JRebel No Completed. Needs to be moved from the experimental area to the stable area.

CDI

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
IT02 08/16/10 (M4) CDI-1 Weld 1.1 Beta 1 Yes Dev tests passes and suitable for QA Handover. TCK tests pass at least on JBoss
Haven't received the build. Deferred to MS 5
IT04 08/16/10 (M4) CDI-2 Tooling feature complete Yes Deferred to MS 5

Bean Validation

Item # Date/Milestone Feature-ID Description QA/Docs Handover? Status / Comments
T01 8/16 M4   Test coverage enhancements.   Make sure tests cover the clustered use case