Update

Service updates collectively refer to the following:

• Any program update to the development environment (hereinafter referred to as development environment update).
• Any update to the middleware or services that make up the environment (hereinafter referred to as an “Execution Environment Update”).

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Both the development environment and the execution environment may stop during service updates. The duration and impact of the outage will be announced in advance.

Impact on Applications

In principle, service updates do not affect running applications. The details are described below.

Development Environment Update

Development environment updates are performed periodically, but they are updates to the development environment, such as new features, UI/UX changes, performance improvements and do not affect applications running in the execution environment. The application is deployed and the new program is implemented in the application.

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You can check the version of the development environment by clicking on the avatar icon in the lower left corner and selecting “About Service”. Since the new version of the application will have some changes compared to the previous version, it is strongly recommended to deploy the application as a separate application in advance and fully check its operation before putting it into production.

Execution Environment Update

The execution environment will be updated through planned maintenance. We will inform you of planned updates to the execution environment in advance. Applications will be stopped during maintenance hours. As a general rule, execution environment updates are version upgrades associated with middleware EOLs such as databases and are expected to have no or minimal impact on applications.

How to Update Application

Applications run when runtime programs deployed in the execution environment read repository data created in the development environment. If the service is only updated, the latest runtime program will not be used and will not affect running applications. Deploying (redeploying) the application transfers the repository to the execution environment and links it with the latest runtime program.