Release Note

Contents

Introduction

As of February 1, 2012, Genesys is no longer an affiliate of Alcatel-Lucent; any indication of such affiliation within Genesys products or packaging is no longer applicable. Please see the Genesys website at http://www.genesys.com for more details.

This release note applies to all 8.1 releases of Web API Server for WebLogic.

• Links in the Contents section enable you to access information regarding a specific release. Releases are listed by version number rather than in date order. For this reason, a recent release may be listed after earlier releases, if the version number is lower. Except when otherwise noted in the information for a specific release, each release includes all of the features and corrections that were introduced for the applicable operating system at earlier dates, regardless of the version numbering.
• The Release Number table lists the supported operating systems for each release at a high level. For more detailed information, see the Genesys Supported Operating Environment Reference Guide.
• The Known Issues and Recommendations section is a cumulative list. It includes information on when individual items were found and, if applicable, corrected.
• The Corrections and Modifications section for each release may list additional issues that were corrected without first being documented as Known Issues.
• The Discontinued Support section is cumulative. It lists functionality that is no longer supported and the release number of the version in which support was discontinued.

Use of Third-Party Software

Genesys follows applicable third-party redistribution policies to the extent that Genesys solutions utilize third-party functionality. For additional information about third-party software used in this product, see the Read Me. Please contact your Genesys Customer Care representative if you have any questions.

Supported Operating Systems

New in This Release

This is a hot fix release of this product. This release contains no new features or functionality.

Corrections and Modifications

All corrections and modifications presented in the Web API Server 8.1 Release Note are applicable for this IP as well.

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Supported Operating Systems

New in This Release

There are no restrictions for this release. This section describes new features that were introduced in this release of Web API Server for WebLogic.

• New sample web pages that demonstrate the Hosted Web API Server capabilities for Hosted Provider Edition e-mail and chat services for multiple tenants.
• Ability to add an E-mail Server or a Chat Server to a tenant and configure that tenant in Genesys Administrator Extension to use a Hosted Web API Server, in addition to the existing premise-based configuration.

Corrections and Modifications

All corrections and modifications presented in the Web API Server 8.1 Release Note are applicable for this IP as well.

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Supported Operating Systems

New in This Release

There are no restrictions for this release. This section describes new features that were introduced in the initial 8.1 release of Web API Server for WebLogic.

• Ability to receive connection parameters from special properties file or through environment variables instead of, or in addition to, the parameters that are specified in the web.xml configuration file.
• Support of TLS with Configuration Server, Solution Control Server, Chat Server, Interaction Server, Stat Server, E-mail Server, and Universal Contact Server.
• Client-side port definition with Configuration Server, Solution Control Server, and Message Server.
• New sample named Chat HA to work with High Availability (HA) Chat Server

Corrections and Modifications

All corrections and modifications presented in the Web API Server 8.1 Release Note are applicable for this IP as well.

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Known Issues and Recommendations

This section provides the latest information on known issues and recommendations associated with this product.

All known functional issues and recommendations presented in the Web API Server 8.1 Release Note are applicable for this IP as well. Known issues and recommendations related to installation or specific to platforms other than Solaris are not applicable.

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Discontinued Support

This section documents features that are no longer supported in this software. This cumulative list is in release-number order with the most recently discontinued features at the top of the list.

Solaris 8 is no longer supported.

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Internationalization

Information in this section is included for international customers.

All known internationalization issues presented in the Web API Server 8.1 Release Note are applicable for this IP as well.

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Additional Information

Additional information on Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. is available on our Customer Care website. The following documentation also contains information about this software. Please consult the eServices 8.1 Deployment Guide first.

• eServices 8.1 Deployment Guide describes deployment procedures for all eServices components. It also contains a high-level description of the eServices system, its architecture, and a list of new features in the current release.

• eServices 8.1 User's Guide provides overall information about and recommendations on the use and operation of Genesys eServices.

• eServices 8.1 Reference Manual provides a reference listing of all configuration options and of field codes used in standard responses.

• eServices 8.1 Web API Client Developer's Guide describes the structure of the Web API, explains the Simple Samples, and describes procedures for customizing them.

• For a listing of classes, methods, fields, and constants of the Web API portion of the Web API Server component, see:

  • eServices 8.1 .NET Web API Reference for the .NET Web API
  • The API References of the Platform SDK for the Java-based Web API

• eServices (Multimedia) 8.0 Selected Conceptual Data Models for the UCS Database describes a portion of the Universal Contact Server (UCS) database.

• 8.1 Universal Contact Server Manager Help is a guide to the Universal Contact Server Manager user interface.

• eServices 8.1 Knowledge Manager Help is a guide to the Knowledge Manager user interface.

• Universal Routing 8.1 Interaction Routing Designer Help is a guide to Interaction Routing Designer, including the portion of it that designs interaction workflows and business processes for eServices.

• Universal Routing 8.1 Business Process User's Guide contains step-by-step instructions for using Interaction Routing Designer to design interaction workflows. It also describes the sample business processes supplied with eServices.

• Genesys Desktop 7.6 Help is a guide to using the Genesys Desktop.

• Genesys 8.1 Security Deployment Guide describes the deployment and configuration of some of the security features provided in Genesys software.

• Genesys Events and Models Reference Manual includes a set of basic interaction models, showing the components involved and the event messages sent among them. For authoritative description of the event messages, see the next item.

• The API References of the Platform SDK, which provide the authoritative information on methods and functions for each SDK, including requests and events. The class Message includes all event and request messages.

• eServices Social Media Solution Guide describes deployment and use of the Genesys Social Messaging product.

Product documentation is provided on the Customer Care website, the Genesys Documentation website, and the Documentation Library DVD (produced monthly).

Note: For the DVD, the New Documents on this DVD page indicates the production date for that disc. Due to disc production schedules, documentation on the Genesys Documentation website may be more up-to-date than what is available on disc immediately after a product is released or updated. To determine the version of a document, check the version number that is located on the second page in PDFs or on the About This File topic in Help files.

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