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Java updates on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Aug 29 14:10:50 2002
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:05:57 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've made a number of recent Java updates on Athena for Sun and Linux:
The 1.4.0_01 and 1.4.1rc Java Development Kits have been installed (and the
first made the default).
The FORTE Java development environment has been updated to 4.0 and made the
default. From my announcements to users:
The Java Development Kit release 1.4.0_01 has been installed and made the
default for Sun and Linux. The installation includes Java 3d 1.3 and the
Java Advanced Imaging API 1.1.1_01; the strong encryption modules from
jce_policy-1_4_0.zip have also been installed.
Please note that while "add java" is the proper command to attach the
right locker for 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 1.4.1rc
is also being installed (in the java_v1.4.1rc locker).
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
(the version for the 1.4.1 beta is 1.4.1rc).
(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_v1.4.0_01/www/index.html (general 1.4 documentation)
https://web.mit.edu/java_v1.4.0_01/www/java3dindex.html (Java 3d documentation)
FORTE for Java 4.0 is now the Athena default. To run the older 3.0 release
now, type:
add forte
runide -ver 3.0
Release 4.0 will put local configuration files in a subdirectory
ffjuser40ce of your home directory. You will need about 500K of free
space for the initial installation, and potentially more later as you
add files to it. Please note that if you opt for autoupdate at some
later date all downloaded files will be put in this directory and
these could potentially require significantly more space.
Please also note that Sun sets a minimum memory requirement of 256 meg
for both Sun and Linux- machines with less than this may generate
runtime errors or not run it at all.
There is documentation and tutorials in various pdf files located in
the /mit/forte_v4.0 directory, and in html format in the
/mit/forte_v4.0/forte4j/docs directory; in particular,
/mit/forte_v4.0/forte4j/docs/forteweb.html will redirect you to Sun's
main FORTE resource page. Sun's documentation starts from:
http://www.sun.com/forte/ffj/resources/documentation/
Alex
