SPECjAppServer2004 Changes in v1.05

Note: The benchmark workload has not changed; results generated with v1.05 are comparable to results generated with previous versions of the benchmark (v1.02, v1.03 and 1.04). SPEC will not distinguish between SPECjAppServer2004 v1.02, v1.03, v1.04 and v1.05 results on its web site.

Summary of changes since the 1.03 release:

• Added a driver feature to provide real-time statistics during the run.
• Modified driver to support case-insensitive HTTP headers and allow extra spaces in the chunk size. At the same time increased the size of the HTTP header buffer to 1024 bytes. These changes address problems reported when running the benchmark on Oracle 10g Application Server and SAP Web Application Server 6.4.
• Upgraded the version of "ant" packaged with the kit to v1.6.2.
• Made a minor change in the auditor to support auditing across a distributed database setup.
• Modified launcher to allow passing JVM options when starting the loader.
• Made some clarifications in the User's Guide and fixed some minor inconsistencies in the default build script and environment file.
• Updated the Design Document to include information about the Foreign Key columns in the table definitions.