How to Upgrade glassfish?

Question

I want to upgrade Glassfish without internet connection. But I have already downloaded the latest version.

I have done the following steps,
For eg. galssfish-3.0 is the older version and glassfish-3.1 is the newer version.

Step: 1 I just copied the glassfish-3.0/glassfish/domains/domain1 and pasted in glassfish-3.1/glassfish/domains

Step: 2 In glassfish-3.1/bin ./asadmin i just give the command asadmin> start-domain --upgrade

then i checked the version asadmin> version the ouput was

Version = GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1.1 (build 12)
Command version executed successfully.

Is this correct or I need to follow some other ways to achieve this? If wrong Please guide me the right way.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance,

Gnik

Answer 1

Regarding the Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1 Upgrade Guide you did it right.

There are some hints in this guide for the migration of deployed applications:

Application archives (EAR files) and component archives (JAR, WAR, and RAR files) that are deployed in the source server do not require any modification to run on Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1. Components that may have incompatibilities are deployed on GlassFish Server 3.1 with the compatibility property set to v2 and will run without change on GlassFish Server 3.1. You may, however, want to consider modifying the applications to conform to Java EE 6 requirements.

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Applications and components that are deployed in the source server are deployed on the target server during the upgrade. Applications that do not deploy successfully on the target server must be deployed manually on the target server by the user.

If a domain contains information about a deployed application and the installed application components do not agree with the configuration information, the configuration is migrated unchanged, without any attempt to reconfigure the incorrect configurations.

You should read through the guide carefully and check your deployed applications for any errors / exceptions during server startup or manual redeployment.

Some time ago I made an update as described in the update guide from 3.0 to 3.1.1 and cannot remember any bigger problems.