GlassFish - World's first Java EE 7 Application Server


List of enhancements by area

(These are in additions to ones listed on high level features page)

General:

  • Update Derby to 10.2
  • Update datadirect drivers

Web:

  • Performance related work
    • commons-modeler performance Issue: 1034 (Amy?) - 1 week
    • Remove copying data between buffers http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6415250 (jfarcand) - 1 week
    • One ByteBuffer per Thread http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6415247 (jfarcand) - DONE
    • WebContainer integration via J2EEInstanceListener is inefficient Issue: 858 (jfarcand) - 1 week
    • Rollback when insufficient data is present (jfarcand) - DONE
    • Look into more complex JSPs and code generation (possibly fixed in 8.x; based on old report from PAE) (kchung) - Non-issue: already handled in AS9
    • Avoid treating default-web-module as separate web application Issue: 1024 (jluehe) - 4 days
    • Valve optimizations
      • Coordinate with admin team's profiling work to make sure access logging is turned off by default in development profile (jluehe) - 2 days
      • Optimize SSO valve invocation if the request does not carry any JSESSIONIDSSO cookie Issue: 836 (jluehe) - DONE
    • Simplify JSP string encoding Issue: 843 (kchung) - 1 week
    • See if we should optimize for the HTTP 1.1 path, possibly taking an expensive hit for 1.0 (jfarcand) - 3 days
    • OPTIMIZATION - Avoid reparsing the web.xml in the JSP container Issue: 740 (jluehe) - DONE
    • Make it possible for servlet and JSP containers to share TLD uri-to-location mappings Issue: 747 (jluehe) - DONE
    • Support sharing of JSP taglib instances by all translation units in a webcontext Issue: 750 (jluehe) - DONE
    • Do not include cookie for invalidated HTTP session in the response Issue: 896 (jluehe) - DONE
    • JSF performance (rlubke) PENDING
  • Grizzly v2 related work (jfarcand) - 4 weeks
  • Grizzly in Jetty (jfarcand) - 1 week
  • Push Grizzly v1 runtime to ibiblio (jfarcand) - 1 week
    • Refactoring
  • Grizzly requests logging Issue: 754 - DONE
  • http to https redirect 4848(4849) Issue: 741 - 1 week
  • JSR 199 (In process JSP compilation) support (kchung) - ALMOST DONE
  • Spec MRs (to be filed by end of September)
    • JSP 2.1 MRx (kchung)
      • Separate EL into its own spec
      • Make EL implementation pluggable Issue: 802 - 2 days
      • Add expression factory
      • Standalone EL TCK (nrodin)
        • port ELResolver API tests - DONE
        • port MethodExpression API tests - DONE
        • port ValueExpression, ExpressionFactory API tests - 1 day
        • port 2.1 Spec tests - 4 days
        • port 2.0 Literal tests - 1 day
        • port 2.0 Operators tests - 10 days
        • port 2.0 Coercion tests - 5 days
        • port other 2.0 tests - 1 day
        • add VariableMapper API - 2 days
        • add Expression implements Serializable - 1 day
        • add Expression.equals(), getExpressionString() - 1 day
        • add ELContextListener.contextCreated() - 2 days
        • add ELContext get and setLocale() - 1 day
        • add Resolver valuation tests - 2 days
        • add ExpressionFactoryMultipleThreads test - 3 days
        • add ExpressionFactory types tests - 1 day
        • add other EL Spec and Javadoc tests - 3 days
        • build TCK infrastructure - 3 days
        • testing - 1 day
        • Docs - 5 days
    • Servlet 2.5 MR6 (mode)
      • Servlet compliance tests breaking when response committed before returning from a RequestDispatcher.forward Issue: 30
        • Spec update (mode) - 1 day
        • RI - DONE
        • TCK - Tests currently being excluded I believe.
      • Allow Servlet context init params to be added / configured from a container wide deployment descriptor Issue 31
        • Spec update (mode) - 1 day
        • RI Done
        • TCK Done
      • Special symbols in non-standard HTTP methods Issue: 32
        • Spec update (mode) - 1 day
        • RI update (amyroh) - 1 day
      • Clarify session attribute synchronization Issue: 33
        • Spec update (mode) - 1 day
      • TCK for HttpSession.getLastAccessedTime() (Fujitsu issue) (djiao) - 2 days
      • Include lookup method in ServletContext Issue: 35
        • Spec update (mode) - 1 day
        • RI (amyroh) - 2 days
        • TCK (djiao) - 2 days
      • Clarification of scope of request and call to removeAttribute method Issue: 36
        • Spec update (mode) - 1 day
        • RI already behaving the way we expect
        • TCK - no change
    • JSTL 1.2 MRx (jluehe)
      • Bring spec into alignment with existing RI - 1 day
    • JSF 1.2 MR1
      • Who Derives The ViewId Issue 162
        • Spec update (rogerk) DONE
        • Implementation (rlubke) DONE
        • TCK test (see below)
      • Redundant Annotation Verbage Issue 166 (rogerk) DONE
      • Clarify Verbatim Usage Issue 167 (rogerk) DONE
      • Incorrect Spec Reference:externalContext.getRequestScope() Issue 196 (rogerk) DONE
      • Default encodeChildren() Behavior In Absence Of Renderer Issue 169 (rogerk) DONE
      • EnumConverter Cleanup Issue 172 (rogerk) DONE
      • Incorrect Reference To jsp-version Element Issue 203 (rogerk) DONE
      • TLD Attribute Type Of h:dataTable Var Attr Should Not Be VE Enabled RI Issue 321 (rlubke) DONE
      • Generify class variable PhaseId.VALUES Issue 182 (edburns) - DONE
      • UIComponentELTag.setBinding Issue 184 (rogerk) DONE
      • Accessibility enhancements for DataTable RI Issue 341 (edburns) - 10 days DONE
      • Section 3.1.1 Component Identifiers - Assertion for subsequent chars Issue 185 (rogerk) DONE
      • Incorrect converter-id for javax.faces.DoubleConverter Issue 176 (rogerk) DONE
      • Incorrect tlddocs description for f:selectItem "value" attribute Issue 187 (rogerk) DONE
      • javadocs/ConverterException-ConverterTag/ConverterELTag RI Issue 344 (rogerk)
        • Part 1 - Specify local value conversion DONE
        • Part 2 - Specify what to do when conversion error - DONE
      • Section 2.5.2.1 ViewRoot 'locale' Attribute Value - Seperator Char Assertion Issue 192 (rogerk) DONE
      • Section 3.1.1 Redundant Id Uniqueness Verbage Issue 193 (rogerk) DONE
      • f:setPropertyActionListener:Use Converter If Attached To Component Issue 197 (rogerk) - 5 days DONE
      • NPE and SelectItem Issue 198 (rogerk) DONE
      • Input Controls: Rendering The Id RI Issue 309 (rogerk) DONE
      • RenderKit Docs: Too Restrictive For CommandLink Issue 199 (edburns) - 2 days DONE
      • Incorrect tlddocs description for f:convertNumber "type" attribute RI Issue 387 (rogerk) DONE
      • TCK Development
        • invokeOnComponent Issue 145 (dougd) - 3 days |
        • RestoreView Issue 162 (dougd) - 5 days
        • Managed bean Annotations (nrodin) - 5 days
        • UIComponentBase.encodeChildren() Issue 169 (dougd) (lower priority) - 2 days
        • Enum converter Issue 172 (nrodin) 3 days
        • Accessibility enhancements for DataTable Issue 341 (dougd) (lower priority) - 3 days
        • ConverterTag.doStartTag and ConverterELTag.doStartTag Issue 344 (dougd) - 3 days
        • f:setPropertyActionListener:Use Converter Issue 197 (dougd) (low priority) - 5 days
        • Render kit tests (including issues 199 + 309) (dougd) - 10 days
        • Content Interweaving (nrodin) - 3 days
        • Testing (dougd) - 2 days
  • Web container
    • Support HA/In-memory-replication store SPI (lwhite/jluehe)
    • Multiple docroot support Issue: 948 (jluehe) - 4 days
    • Multi-byte redirect URI not properly encoded, resulting in 404 error Issue: 936 (jluehe) - DONE
    • Multibyte characters in JSP file names Issue: 797 (jluehe) - DONE
    • JSR-88 DeploymentManager.redeploy fails for ear Issue: 862 (jluehe) - DONE
    • Add support for %time-taken% token to access log pattern Issue: 973 (jluehe) - DONE
    • Redeployment memory leak investigation Issue: 587 (jluehe) - 3 days
    • Changing http-listener properties requires server restart Issue: 462 (jfarcand) - 2 days
    • Allow dynamic property changes Issue: 547 (jluehe) - DONE
    • Cleanup default HTTP pages Issue: 254 (jluehe) - DONE
    • Impossible for JSP error page to set response encoding when invoked from another JSP Issue: 815 (jluehe) - 1 day
    • Namespace Prefix in EL Qualified Functions with '.' or '-' Issue: 839 (jluehe) - 2 days
    • Generated servlet error when app. server installed in a path with space Issue: 845 (amyroh) - 2 days
    • Connection reset by peer accessing Admin UI and custom web apps (including OpenCMS) Issue: 888 (Amy) - 1 week
    • HttpSession.getLastAccessedTime(): Session's lastAccessedTime must be updated by mere presence of JSESSIONID in request (jluehe) - 1 day
    • Support AJP13 Issue: 200 (amyroh) - DONE
    • Simulating load traffic onto port 4848 or 8080 hangs PE Issue: 677 (jfarcand) - 2 days once reproduced
    • MapELResolver.setValue sometimes throws UnsupportedOperation Issue: 567 (kchung) - 2 days
    • Modularization changes to improve startup performance

Web Tier Schedule

Admin:

Admin GUI

  • Charting in PE
  • Expose Resource Allocation Feature in GUI
  • OnlineWikiHelp per GUI page
  • Static Promotions page when offline
  • Better user experience feedback using promotions frame
  • Admin GUI using JSF (PE app)

Docs

  • Online Error Msg Catalog

LoadBalancer

  • Admin
  • TBD

Security

  • JDBCRealm