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JDK on Athena updated to 1.3.1, 1.4.0 betas available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Aug 21 14:44:19 2001
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cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, cfyi@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU, cjt@lcs.MIT.EDU,
jud@ceci.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:44:06 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've updated the Java Development Kit on Athena to 1.3.1 and made it the
default (the SGI version is only identified as 1.3 so it might be 1.3.0).
I'va also installed 1.4.0 beta releases for Sun and Linux. Please note for
the latter that Sun is releasing it under a restricted, "for evaluation use
only" license.
New as of this installation is a working Netscape Java plugin for
Linux- we previously had not been able to get this working (the new
plugins need to be configured into the Netscape launch script by the
Netscape maintainers- this is expected to happen shortly);
unfortunately an SGI Java plugin continues to be unavailable.
We've also made the local Java documentation MIT certificate-protected.
This is required by Sun's license (presumably to avoid having outdated
documentation publicly accessible on the Net).
More details from the message sent to users:
The Sun and Linux installations include Java 3d and the Java Advanced Imaging
API- these are not currently available for SGI.
Please note that while "add java" is the proper command to attach the right
locker for SGI and Linux, you need to type "add -f java" on Suns in order
to bypass an older version supplied with Solaris.
These are the latest production releases as of this writing. Beta 1.4
releases for Sun and Linux are also installed (see below).
To run other versions 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 1.1.6 myfile.java
(if you use any other command-line switches, they must follow the
"-ver" switch).
Documentation in html format is available starting from:
https://web.mit.edu/java_v1.3.1/www/index.html (general 1.3.1 documentation)
https://web.mit.edu/java_v1.3.1/www/java3dindex.html (Java 3d documentation)
https://web.mit.edu/java_v1.3.1/www/jaiindex.html (Java Advanced
Imaging documentation)
https://web.mit.edu/java_v1.3.1/www/sgiindex.html (SGI-specific documentation)
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A beta version of JDK 1.4.0 is also available for Sun and Linux, but is
not the default. Access it as above for "other versions", using 1.4.0b
as the version.
Documentation is available starting from
https://web.mit.edu/java_v1.4.0b/distrib/share/docs/index.html
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Alex
