------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, California 95054, U.S.A. All rights reserved. Sun Microsystems, Inc. has intellectual property rights relating to technology embodied in this product. In particular, and without limitation, these intellectual property rights may include one or more of the U.S. patents listed at http://www.sun.com/patents and one or more additional patents or pending patent applications in the U.S. and other countries. This product is distributed under licenses restricting its use, copying distribution, and decompilation. No part of this product may be reproduced in any form by any means without prior written authorization of Sun and its licensors, if any. Third-party software, including font technology, is copyrighted and licensed from Sun suppliers. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java and the Java Coffee Cup logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. Federal Acquisitions: Commercial Software - Government Users Subject to Standard License Terms and Conditions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Installing the Solaris (TM) Intel JDK with JIT Compiler Introduction: ------------- This is a release of the Solaris Intel JDK 1.1.8 (native threads) including a JIT compiler which is used by default. Java JIT compilers can accelerate Java execution performance. Speeds are highest for long-running, compute-intensive programs. SUN MICROSYSTEMS IS WILLING TO LICENSE THE LICENSED SOFTWARE TO YOU ONLY UPON THE CONDITION THAT YOU ACCEPT ALL OF THE TERMS CONTAINED IN THE LICENSE AGREEMENT. For more information, see http://www.sun.com/solaris/java. Requirements: ------------- Solaris Operating Environment 2.5.1, 2.6, 7 or 8 is required. Prior to installing the JDK or JRE, you should ensure that you have installed the full set of required patches needed for support of this release. To obtain patches, see the SunSolve support website at: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/J2SE There you will find a patch cluster for each Solaris Operating Environment platform. Each patch cluster applies to all supported versions of the JDK and JRE on the given platform. The "showrev -p" command lists the patches installed on your system. JDK Installation: ----------------- Before installing the JDK, verify that the patches needed for your version of Solaris are installed, as described in the previous section. The JDK is distributed as a compressed tar archive containing a set of three files and five packages: README.i386 LICENSE ReleaseNotes.html SUNWjvrt SUNWjvdev SUNWjvjit SUNWjvman SUNWjvdem README.i386 is this file. The LICENSE file is a copy of the license agreement. The ReleaseNotes.html file gives you more information about changes to this release. To install the packages: (1) become root (2) uncompress and extract the tar file uncompress jdk-1_1_8_16-solaris-i586.tar.Z tar xvf jdk-1_1_8_16-solaris-i586.tar (3) if a previous version of JDK 1.1 is installed, remove the old packages pkgrm SUNWjvdem SUNWjvman SUNWjvdev SUNWjvjit SUNWjvrt (4) install the new packages pkgadd -d . SUNWjvrt SUNWjvdev SUNWjvjit SUNWjvman SUNWjvdem This will install the JDK and JIT into /usr/java1.1 and link the binaries into /usr/bin. Please see the Release Notes for information on using the JDK, troubleshooting and changes in this release. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------