Web Tier Documentation Plan for GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1

People and Roles

Name Role Location Time Zone Email
Mike Fitch Documentation Feature Owner CA, USA US/Pacific oncered@dev.java.net
Rajiv Mordani Software Engineer Santa Clara CA, USA US/Pacific @dev.java.net
Shing-Wai Chan Software Engineer Santa Clara CA, USA US/Pacific swchan2@dev.java.net
Amy Roh Software Engineer Santa Clara CA, USA US/Pacific amyroh@dev.java.net
Dhiru Pandey Software Engineer Santa Clara CA, USA US/Pacific @dev.java.net
Kin-Man Chung Software Engineer Santa Clara CA, USA US/Pacific kchung@dev.java.net
Justin Lee Software Engineer New York NY, USA US/Eastern @dev.java.net
Sudipa Bhattacharya QA Engineer Santa Clara CA, USA US/Pacific @dev.java.net

Audience

Developers of Java EE application use the various APIs provided by the Web Tier services.

GlassFish administrators configure and manage the services provided by the Web Tier.

Summary of the Feature From a User's Perspective

The Web Tier provides the required Java EE 6 functionality for the web container.

Availability

The Web Tier is available in both the web and full GlassFish Server distributions.

Statement of Work

This section describes in detail for each document the work that is required by the introduction of the feature, such as changes, addition of new material, relocation of existing material, and removal of existing material.

Note
Support of WebLogic deployment descriptors and the renaming of sun-web.xml to glassfish-web.xml are covered in the Deployment Documentation Plan.

Documentation Impact:

  • None
  • Minor
  • Moderate
  • Major
  • New

Changes to Books

Administration Guide Changes

Section Documentation Impact Writer Reviewers Description of Change
Chapter 16, "Administering Internet Connectivity" Moderate Mike Fitch   Reinstate clustering information from v2.
"Administering HTTP Protocols" in Chapter 16, "Administering Internet Connectivity" New Mike Fitch   Add procedures for creating, deleting and listing protocol filters and finders.

Development Guide Changes

Section Documentation Impact Writer Reviewers Description of Change
Chapter 8, "Developing Web Applications" Moderate Mike Fitch   Reinstate clustering information from v2.
"Creating and Managing Sessions" in Chapter 8, "Developing Web Applications" New Mike Fitch   Document StrategyBuilder interface.

Domain File Format Reference Changes

Section Documentation Impact Writer Reviewers Description of Change
"H" New Mike Fitch Justin Lee Document http-redirect element.

High Availability Administration Guide Changes

Section Documentation Impact Writer Reviewers Description of Change
"HTTP Session Failover" in Chapter 9, "Configuring High Availability Session
Persistence and Failover"
Moderate Mike Fitch   Reinstate from v2.

Changes to Online Help

Administration Console Common Online Help Changes

See the Administration Console Documentation Plan.

Changes to Man Pages

Man Page Name and Section Documentation Impact Writer Reviewers Description of Change
create-virtual-server, delete-virtual-server, list-virtual-servers, create-http, delete-http, create-http-listener, delete-http-listener, list-http-listeners, create-threadpool, delete-threadpool, list-threadpools, create-ssl, delete-ssl, create-protocol, delete-protocol, list-protocols, create-transport, delete-transport, list-transports, create-network-listener, delete-network-listener, list-network-listeners Minor Mike Fitch   Reinstate --target option.
create-protocol-filter, delete-protocol-filter, list-protocol-filters, create-protocol-finder, delete-protocol-finder, list-protocol-finders New Mike Fitch Justin Lee Add these Man Pages

Review Schedule

The review schedule for the documentation items that are affected by this feature is provided in the following table.

Item Review Start Date Review End Date
Administration Guide changes    
Development Guide changes    
High Availability Administration Guide changes    
Administration Console Common Online Help changes    
Man Page changes    

Reviewers are listed in the Statement of Work.

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