Re: Upgrade from glassfish to glassfish
Should I file an RFE?
- eduard/o
Kedar Mhaswade wrote:
>> * Can one upgrade from GF V1 fcs o GF V2 fcs?
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> Yes, one should be able to do so, seamlessly.
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>> * Can one upgrade from GF V1 fcs to GF V2 Mx for some Mx?
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> Yes, one should be able to do so, seamlessly.
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>> * Can one upgrade from GF V2 Mn to GF V2 Mm for some m,n?
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> Yes, one should be able to do so, for all m >= n but not otherwise.
> In other words, binary downgrades might break existing domain
> configurations and should not be "supported", IMO.
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> This would be a little less stable than release to release upgrade.
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> For 9.1, we are also working on something called a network installer
> and update center. See issue 524 which I am going to work on.
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> Also note that "asadmin backup-domain" and "asadmin-restore-domain"
> should not be required (although it could be used)
> for such simple binary upgrade scenarios. The bottom
> line is that going ahead, all the domain configuration changes should
> be handled with care, which enables us to take care of these issues.
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> This will be presented to the community as a one pager in the
> days/weeks to come.
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> Regards,
> Kedar
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>>
>> Upgradability seems very important if we want aggressive use of the
>> Milestones, and I think we want that to be sure the final result is as
>> useful to the customer/community as possible...
>>
>> Thanks!
>> - eduard/o
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>>
>> Shreedhar Ganapathy wrote:
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>>> 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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