Installer GlassFish v3 Documentation Plan

People and Roles

Name Role Location Time Zone Email
Chinmayee Srivathsa Documentation Feature Owner Bangalore, India IST chinmayee.srivathsa@sun.com
TBD Additional Writers - - -
Sathyan Catari Engineer SCA PDT Sathyan.Catari@sun.com
Snjezana Sevo-Zenzerovic Engineer SCA PDT {{njezana.sevo-zenzerovic@sun.com }}

Audience

  • All GlassFish users

Summary of the Feature

Product installer/uninstaller for GlassFish V3 distribution.

Availability

This feature is part of all GlassFish v3 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

Support for generating resource definitions in NetBeans and Eclipse should be documented in the NetBeans and Eclipse plugin docs.

Installation Guide Changes

Section Doc Impact Writer Reviewers Description of Change
Using Enterprise Server v3 Prelude GUI Installation > To Install Enterprise Server From the Self-Extracting File Moderate Chinmayee Sathyan, Snjezana Add information about custom JDK path selection. Add info about configuring port numbers during installation. Add info about Windows Service support.
Uninstalling Enterprise Server v3 Prelude Moderate Chinmayee Sathyan, Snjezana Add topic on uninstalling in silent mode.
GlassFish v3 File Layout NEW Chinmayee Sathyan, Snjezana Add section on the file layout of a GlassFish installation. Cover important folders such as the installation directory, domain directory, location of server.log etc.

Release Notes Changes

Section Doc Impact Writer Reviewers Description of Change
Compatibility issues Moderate - Sathyan, Snjezana Mention that this installation program is not compatible with earlier releases of GlassFish installation interfaces as different incompatible frameworks are used to develop them. State-files(silent installation) generated out of the earlier versions of application server product installers cannot be used with this program.

QuickStart Guide Changes

Section Doc Impact Writer Reviewers Description of Change
Starting the Server Moderate - Sathyan, Snjezana Describe how to use the desktop shortcuts created on Windows or GNOME created by the installation program

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]