Post-upgrade Validation

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Custom Applications

Verify if the number of custom applications post-upgrade is intact and is equal to the number noted before upgrading

Invoke custom applications.

(JBoss 5.1 only) If axis-jaxrpc-1.4.jar is bundled with your custom application, invocation fails with the following exception:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/namespace/QName

Delete axis-jaxrpc-1.4.jar and redeploy the application.

You may encounter NoClassDefFoundErrors for other jars bundled with your custom applications which are also existing in the JBoss 5.1 tree.

Application Server Client JARs

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If necessary, modify them.

Custom WAR/EAR

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N/A

Redeploy all custom WAR/EAR files.

LiveCycle 7.x APIs

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N/A

Replace with LiveCycle ES3 APIs.

Administration Console

Log in to the Administration Console.

Unable to log in.

Check and log in using your pre-upgrade LiveCycle Administrator user credentials.

Reader Extensions

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N/A

Perform the tasks outlined at: Access the Reader Extensions web application.

Process Management/Workspace

Replace the new adobe-workspace-client.ear with the old one you had backed up prior to upgrading.

Ensure all stalled and running processes resume functioning.

Ensure that all pre-upgrade process and service states have been persisted with.

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For more nformation, see: Access Workspace.

Content Services (deprecated)

Verify if the size of lccs_data is intact and is comparable to its pre-upgrade size.

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For more information, see: Access the Content Services web application.

PDF Generator

Log in to the Administration Console and create a PDF.

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For more information, see: Create a PDF file.

Rights Management

Access Rights Management Administration Console.

Open a rights-enabled PDF document created using your previous LiveCycle installation.

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Cannot open the document.

For more information, see: Access Rights Management

If the host name was not retained, the pre-upgrade encryption will not persist and rights-enabled PDF documents cannot be opened.

Forms

Use Forms IVS to render forms.

Log in to Workspace and using samples, check if forms are rendered correctly.

Check if number of forms are intact.

Check if forms continue to be rendered from an external location.

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End points

Ensure that email addresses provided for Email end point continue to be valid.

Ensure that folder paths provided for Watched Folder end point continue to be valid and the folders accessible.

Email addresses are invalid.

Folders are inaccessible.

Provide valid email addresses by logging in to Administration Console. See Configuring email endpoints for more information.

Set up watched folders at locations that are highly available by logging in to Administration Console. See Configuring watched folder endpoints for more information.

Data Services

Check if all LCAs that use FML are deployed.

Ensure that com.adobe.livecycle.datatypeutility. FMLTLOHandler record is not present in the tb_sc_tlo registry table. If present, delete the record.

Check for the new feature (FIRE DS). An FML with valid FIRE DS annotations should be able to deploy and FIRE DSC should be able to generate properly.

N/A

You can choose to allow serialization of non-serializable classes. In the Administration Console, go to Services > Applications and Services > Service Management. In Remoting Service, under Configuration tab, select Allow serialization of non-Serializable classes option.

Guides (deprecated)

If Guides (1.0) system was customized replace Guides (2.0) system.

N/A

If you want to migrate the customized Guides (1.0) system to Guides (2.0), then reinstall and redeploy the files manually. See Guides for more information.

User Manager

Authenticate users and evaluate permissions on them with several authentication schema.

Verify if LDAP, users, and groups are synchronized. Also check for data losses.

Check to see if canonical names of the users are visible on the UI.

Unable to authenticate user or permission evaluation is incorrect.

Possible data loss.

N/A

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