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Re: Upgrade glassfish

From: Marina Vatkina <Marina.Vatkina_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:00:13 -0700

Hi,

I hope there are others who can chime in on this one, but AFAIK there
is no such thing as an upgrade currently with GF.

regards,
-marina

Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Last night I did an upgrade from V1UR1 b06 to V1UR1 b10 on Linux.
> The process was:
>
> 1) Download new package for Linux from glassfish.dev.java.net;
> 2) execute "java -Xmx256m -jar glassfish..."
> 3) mv glassfish /usr/java/ (the place where I execute all my java
> programs on linux)
>
> This step give me an error (cannot overwrite /usr/java/glassfish,
> because already there is an glassfish there).
>
> The problem is just there: how could I achieve a glassfish upgrade
> without re-installing everything? In my case, I was forced to mv
> glassfish glassfishOLD, then execute setup, install (again) the JDBC
> drivers, special Auth modules, and finally redeploy every app running on
> it.
> This is a error prone and time consuming task, that needed I put my
> server down for a couple of hours...
> I did convince me I missed something really cool (in upgrade terms), and
> I was doing this in the hard way.
>
> There is an easy way?
>
> TIA,
>
> Richter
>
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