4 Replies Latest reply on Jun 20, 2007 11:53 AM by tobias

    4.0.5 to 4.2.0 Upgrade

    djr667

      Just in the rare case that someone at JBoss cares.

      Upgrading to 4.2.0 has been a thoroughly unpleasant experience.

      1. JSF 1.2 does not work with MyFaces Tomahawk 1.1.4 or 1.1.5
      http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=108746
      All JBoss says about this is that Tomahawk 'should work'.

      2. (Apparently) JBossTS does not support multiple local-tx and switching to xa-tx does not work so easily
      http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=109361
      No comments in release notes about this.

      3. JBossWeb Native does not work very well with a reverse-proxy. We get random 3 second delays before a proxy request gets acted upon. To date I have found no information on this.

      4. AJP classes have been removed from the distribution (e.g. org.apache.jk.config.ApacheConfig)
      No comment in release notes about this.

      5. Even though 4.2.0 was released a month ago
      http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=108479
      all documentation is still 4.0.5
      http://labs.jboss.com/jbossas/docs
      which, when so many changes have been made, is not very 'Professional Open Source'

      6. Searching, or even posting to, the bulletin board is usually pointless.

      Maybe I have been spoilt by previous upgrades being so easy,

      or maybe JBoss considers rewriting working applications (points 1 and 2) to be 'normal procedure' in an upgrade,

      or maybe JBoss is losing it...

      Dave

        • 1. Re: 4.0.5 to 4.2.0 Upgrade
          dimitris

          JBossAS 4.2.0 had a very large number of component updates compared to any previous 3.x/4.x releases, and it's not easy to get everything right the first time. We'll try to address the issues you mention.

          Thank a lot for the input.

          • 2. Re: 4.0.5 to 4.2.0 Upgrade
            tobias

            Hi Dimitris!
            What's the status of the documentation right now? JBoss is still an open source project (right?), so you could harness the community here.
            But currently I get the impression that the development model somehow "closed" a bit and that help from the outside on this issues is not really wanted.
            For example if it was clear for you guys that there will be no installer for 4.2 it would have been nice to tell that to everybody. Instead that seemed to be some internal decision, for which I had to ask about.

            Cheers,
            Tobias

            • 3. Re: 4.0.5 to 4.2.0 Upgrade
              dimitris

              We are in the process of updating the docs. You are right, we have been really bad with keeping the docs in synch, we need a more open solution there.

              • 4. Re: 4.0.5 to 4.2.0 Upgrade
                tobias

                I started with collecting some information about 4.2.0 in the wiki here: http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossReleaseNotes

                Some migration tips might be added later.