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JDK 1.2.2 (SGI), 1.3.0 (Sun, Linux) installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Aug 10 19:30:32 2000
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU, jud@MIT.EDU, lerman@MIT.EDU, nathanw@MIT.EDU,
seth@lcs.MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, cfyi@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:29:34 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I have installed the Java Development Kit 1.2.2 (production release)
for SGI and 1.3.0 (beta) for Sun and 1.3.0 (production release) for
Linux. The Linux release is a new port just released by IBM. I expect
to make these the Athena defaults within about 2 weeks.
These are the latest available releases as of this writing.
To run them now do "add java" (SGI, Linux) or "add -f java" (Sun)
followed by a JDK command immediately followed by a "-ver" switch, i.e. like:
javac -ver 1.3.0 myfile.java (Sun, Linux)
javac -ver 1.2.2 myfile.java (SGI)
(if you use any other command-line switches, they must follow the "-ver"
switch).
After these become the default, the "-ver" switch can be dropped.
Documentation in html format is available starting from
http://web.mit.edu/java_v1.3.0/www/index.html (general 1.3.0 documentation)
http://web.mit.edu/java_v1.3.0/www/linuxindex.html (Linux-specific 1.3.0 docs)
http://web.mit.edu/java_v1.2.2/www/sgiindex.html (SGI-specific 1.2.2 docs)
Older JDK versions are still available and can be used by adding the
appropriate version switch in the run command (i.e. "add java;
java -ver 1.1.6 myfile" to use JDK 1.1.6 for Linux or SGI, or
"add -f java; java -ver 1.1.6 myfile" for Sun) (and so on)
Alex
