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JDK updates on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Aug 22 13:40:18 2007
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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:40:08 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've updated the Java Development Kit on Athena to the latest 1.5 and 1.6
releases. From my message to users:
The Java 1.6.0_02 production release has been installed and made the default.
To use it:
add -f java
followed by one of the usual Java commands:
javac myfile.java (etc.)
Local documentation is available, starting from
https://web.mit.edu/java_v1.6.0_2/www/index.html
The latest 1.5 JDK has also be installed. To use it instead:
add -f java_v1.5.0_12
followed by one of the usual Java commands.
Please note that these versions are distinct from the one in the Athena
release (/usr/bin/java etc, currently at version 1.5.0_10-b03), and the
-f flag to add is needed to put them at the front of your path.
Note also that there is an interaction with AFS on Suns for JDK 1.6
that can cause problems- more information is in file
/mit/java_v1.6.0_2/README.athena.
Alex
