Upgrade Guide - Prolifics

Web Application DevelopmentIf you have revised an existing transaction model, the revised version can continue toserve as a database-specific transaction model. Since none of the previously distributedtransaction models return TM_PROCEED, unless this return value has been explicitlycoded, the transaction manager will only access the common model for the newtransaction manager events.If you have implemented a transaction manager event function and use one of theexisting transaction models, there is no visible effect with the replacement of the oldmodels with the new.Web Application DevelopmentFor additional information, refer to page 1-35, “Web Application API Changes.”Initialization File ChangesInitialization File SettingsWeb initialization files have the following new initialization variables:! NumServers—The number of Jserver processes, or concurrent users, for anapplication. This setting replaces the MinServers and MaxServers settingswhich are no longer available. Web applications from previous releases need toupdate their web initialization file to the new variable.! IdleServerTimeOut—Number of seconds that a Jserver process will wait foran incoming request before exiting.! EnableWebid—Activates the caching process which uses the webid property toobtain the cache file so that it can be specified in the URL.! ImageDir—Graphics can be fetched using the http protocol, rather than thePanther web application server. In the web application's initialization file,specify a sub-directory of the HTTP server's document root directory in theUpgrade Guide 1-45