This topic highlights what is new or changed for users who are going to customize, administer, monitor, and tune production server environments using the wsadmin tool.
The Deprecated, stabilized, and removed features topic describes features that are being replaced or removed in this or future releases.
Enhancements to AdminTask command support for managing configurations using properties files | Version 7 introduced system configuration using properties files. Using commands in the PropertiesBasedConfiguration group, you can copy configuration properties from one environment to another, troubleshoot configuration issues, and apply one set of configuration properties across multiple profiles, nodes, cells, servers, or applications. Enhancements
to configuration using properties files for Version 8.0 include the following:
For more information, see Using properties files to manage system configuration and PropertiesBasedConfiguration command group for the AdminTask object using wsadmin scripting. |
AdminSDKCmds command group for the AdminTask object | Use the commands and parameters in the AdminSDKCmds group
for the AdminTask object to perform the following actions:
For more information, see AdminSDKCmds command group for the AdminTask object. |
getAvailableSDKsOnNode and getSDKPropertiesOnNode commands in the ManagedObjectMetadata command group for the AdminTask object | Use the getAvailableSDKsOnNode and getSDKPropertiesOnNode commands
and parameters in the ManagedObjectMetadata group for the AdminTask
object to perform the following actions:
For more information, see ManagedObjectMetadata command group for the AdminTask object. |
listServices command for information about web service references | Use the listServices command to learn about service references. You can use the serviceRef property with the queryProps parameter with the listServices command to query all service references or a specific service reference. This parameter is only applicable for service clients. If you specify an asterisk (*) as a wildcard as the name of the service reference, all of the service references for the matching service client are returned. You can also query a specific service reference name by specifying the name of the service reference that you want. To return detailed service reference information for endpoints and operations, specify the expandResource property. For more information, see Querying web services using wsadmin scripting. |
Security cookies set as HTTPOnly resist cross-site scripting attacks | Use the HttpOnly browser attribute to prevent client side applications (such as Java scripts) from accessing cookies to prevent some cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. The attribute specifies that LTPA and WASReqURL cookies include the HTTPOnly field. For more information, see Single sign-on settings. |
runCommand, manageprofiles, installIM, updateIM, manageOfferings, and findIMDataLocation parameters of the submitJob command for the AdminTask object | Use new parameters of the submitJob command
for the AdminTask object to use a job manager to perform the following
actions:
For more information, see Administrative job types using wsadmin scripting. |