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<h1>Application Client Container (ACC) Documentation Plan</h1>

People and Roles

Name Role Location Time Zone Email
June Parks Documentation Feature Owner SCA16 1724 US Pacific junesm@dev.java.net
Dixie Pine Kim Haase Additional Writers     java.netID@dev.java.net
Julie Bettis Editor     java.netID@dev.java.net
Tim Quinn Hong Zhang Ken Saks Software Engineers     java.netID@dev.java.net
Chang Feng QA Engineer     java.netID@dev.java.net

Audience

The ACC is used mainly by developers of clients that access EJB components. Administrators may deploy clients developed by others.

Summary of the Feature From a User's Perspective

The new ACC features add a few small user tasks and enhancements to existing user tasks.

Availability

The ACC was not available in Prelude and will probably not be available in the nucleus and web 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.

Documentation Impact:

  • None
  • Minor
  • Moderate
  • Major
  • New

Note - If a document is task based (as opposed to reference), the changes should be determined from the user task analysis for the feature.

Changes to Books

Application Development Guide Changes

Section Documentation Impact Writer Reviewers Description of Change
Developing Java Clients Moderate June Parks Tim Quinn Hong Zhang Ken Saks Chang Feng QA JavaFX compilation and assembly Embedded ACC ORB endpoints Splash screen Launching with java command Appclient JAR and dependent JARs Client selection Non-default JVM options

Application Deployment Guide Changes

Section Documentation Impact Writer Reviewers Description of Change
Deploying an Application Client Minor Dixie Pine June Parks Tim Quinn Hong Zhang Ken Saks Chang Feng QA For asadmin get-client-stubs and the --retrieve option of asadmin deploy, asadmin redeploy, and asadmin deploydir, the appclient JAR is smaller with dependent classes in separate JARs. The asadmin get-client-stubs, asadmin deploy, asadmin redeploy, and asadmin deploydir commands have a new --client option allowing selection among multiple clients in an EAR (not in Early Access).

Changes to Online Help

Topic Title Documentation Impact Writer Reviewers Description of Change
Application Client Deployment Moderate Kim Haase June Parks Tim Quinn Hong Zhang Ken Saks Chang Feng QA ORB endpoints Non-default JVM options Client selection (not in EA)

Changes to Man Pages

Man Page Name and Section Documentation Impact Writer Reviewers Description of Change
appclient Moderate June Parks Tim Quinn Hong Zhang Ken Saks Chang Feng QA ORB endpoints Non-default JVM options
package-appclient None June Parks Tim Quinn Hong Zhang Ken Saks Chang Feng QA None planned
get-client-stubs Minor June Parks Same New --client option allows selection among multiple clients in an EAR (not in EA).
deploy redeploy deploydir Minor Dixie Pine June Parks Same New --client option allows selection among multiple clients in an EAR (not in EA).

Review Schedule

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

Item First Draft Start Date First Draft End Date Second Draft Start Date Second Draft End Date Final Version End Date Final Version End Date
             
             
             

Reviewers are listed in the Statement of Work.

Related Information

Email aliases:

  • [admin@glassfish.java.net]
  • [users@glassfish.java.net]
  • [docs@glassfish.java.net]