Thanks Shreedhar. In my opinion if one has a running domain it should
continue to run as is when we move to
a newer version of glassfish, specially if it is just a bug fix release.
I am not advocating build to build updates but atleast
have the ability to update from say the fcs build of glassfish v1 to the
fcs build of glassfish v1 ur1. Build to build
would be a nice to have. I think we should definitely look at an upgrade
story for glassfish.
- Rajiv
Shreedhar Ganapathy wrote:
> Hello Rajiv
> You are right and I should have earlier posted a clarification to the
> alias.
> When the installations of GF have an incompatible change such as a
> class dependency of admin tool in the earlier build no longer being
> available in the newer build (example,
> GlassFishConfigureListener.java in b48 no longer being there in b05
> v1ur1 in my pre-blog experimentation) then the admin tool would break
> unless the admin app also got updated.
> Seems to me that if the backup/restore would not touch system apps
> such as admin apps, this problem would go away but I hesitate to
> generalize.
>
> Byron and Kedar clarified when I discussed this with them (and here I
> share this information for benefit of others) that the backup/restore
> command's original intention was not to port a domain from one
> installation to another but to only save a good domain configuration
> for later use (say if the domain got corrupted) within the same
> installation.
>
> One of the alternatives suggested was to save the domain config
> directory from earlier build elsewhere and then do an in place install
> of newer build and then move back config dir. This might work subject
> to caveat that incompatible changes from earlier build to newer build
> in the installation bits could possibly pose problems and that inplace
> upgrade to newer build is an irreversible change.
>
> In sum, I think that if there is sufficient developer/user demand for
> build to build upgrades, then this should be considered an RFE and
> should be filed as such.
>
> best regards
> Shreedhar
>
> Rajiv Mordani wrote:
>> Shreedhar,
>> Unfortunately this does not seem to work. I tried to backup a
>> domain that was installed on glassfish v1 and then restore
>> it on glassfish v1 ur1 and some apps worked but in particular the
>> admin tool was broken.
>>
>> - Rajiv
>>
>> Shreedhar Ganapathy wrote:
>>> Alright, I Will do so today or tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart wrote:
>>>> Shreedhar, what about writging a short blog on tihs? Later we need
>>>> to captgure it in the public wiki...
>>>>
>>>> - eduard/o
>>>>
>>>> Shreedhar Ganapathy wrote:
>>>>> Hello Dmitry
>>>>> At present I believe there is no upgrade mechanism between nightly
>>>>> or promoted builds. A possible way is to use asadmin
>>>>> backup-domain/restore-domain commands which would back up your
>>>>> domain configuration to your specified directory and allow you to
>>>>> restore it when the new build is installed.
>>>>> See the documentation here:
>>>>> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/nonav/javaee5/docs/SJSASEETSG.pdf
>>>>> page 11
>>>>> and
>>>>> http://fisheye5.cenqua.com/viewrep/glassfish/appserv-docs/sman/cat1/backup-domain.1?r1=1.6.2.1&r2=1.6.2.2&u=-1&ignore=&k=k
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>>>
>>>>> regards
>>>>> Shreedhar
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dmitry Mozheyko wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello all.
>>>>>> How to safely upgrade glassfish version for example from v2-b09
>>>>>> to v2-b11?
>>>>>> WBR, Dmitry
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