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Java Development Kit on Athena updated to 1.4.2_01
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Sep 3 12:06:25 2003
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Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:06:01 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've updated the Java Development Kit on Athena (to release 1.4.2_01) as is
customary at the start of each semester. Mozilla has also been configured
to use the Java plugin from this release. From my announcement to users:
The Java Development Kit release 1.4.2_01 has been installed and made the
default for Sun and Linux. The installation includes Java 3d 1.3.1 and the
Java Advanced Imaging API 1.1.2_01; the strong encryption modules from
jce_policy-1_4_2.zip have also been installed. The JDK is now bundled with
Java Web start- version 1.4.2 for this release. The locker also contains
the Java Advanced Imaging Image I/O libraries, version 1.0.
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.
To run other versions now do "add java" (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_v1.4.2_01/www/index.html (JDK 1.4.2 documentation)
https://web.mit.edu/java_v1.4.2_01/www/java3dindex.html (Java 3d documentation)
https://web.mit.edu/java_v1.4.2_01/www/imageioindex.html (Image I/O docs)
Please report installation problems or questions to 3partysw@mit.edu
Alex
