Getting Started

    JavaTM 2, Standard Edition, v. 1.3.1_06
    for BEA WebLogic ServerTM on UnixWare® 7.1.3


This specific patch level release of Java 2 Standard Edition, v 1.3.1 provides the BEA "supported" client and server JVM required to use the BEA WebLogic Server on UnixWare 7.1.3.

For users who are not using BEA WebLogic, a more current J2SE 1.3.1 release is available as product "Java 2, Standard Edition, v.1.3.1 for SCO UNIX Operating Systems" on the download web-site.

This release of Java 2 Standard Edition contains:

J2SE 1.3.1 for SCO UNIX is a full implementation of the Sun MicrosystemsTM Java 2 Platform - the technology and environment described in the SunTM specifications of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v. 1.3.1. (The _06 suffix on the version number indicates the patch level of the Sun J2SE that J2SE 1.3.1 for SCO UNIX corresponds to.)

Note: This is a separate Java implementation from the Java 2 Standard Edition implementations for Linux available for the Linux Kernel Personality (LKP) on UnixWare..

Changes in This Release

J2SE 1.3.1_06

J2SE 1.3.1_06 for SCO UNIX, available on this download site, has fixes for problems reported by users of J2SE 1.3.1 including the following security fixes from Sun:

Sun Alert ID        Description
49304 Java VM Allows Constructors not to Call Other Constructors
50081 Incorrect Certificate Validation in Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE), Java Plug-In and Java Web Start
50083 Java Virtual Machine May Allow Illegal Access to Protected Fields or Methods

J2SE 1.3.1_04

J2SE 1.3.1_04 for SCO UNIX includes improvements in performance, functionality, and reliability over the previous Java release for SCO UNIX, the Java 2 Standard Edition, version 1.3.0_02 and is available on the UnixWare 7.1.3 and on the OpenServer Release 5.0.7 media kits.

System Requirements and Supported Platforms

Supported SCO UNIX platforms:

[*] Package urwfonts is available as part of the UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.3 media kit and is automatically installed as part of Initial System Load if Java is installed. It is also available on the UnixWare and OpenServer Development Kit 7.1.3 or may be downloaded from this download page.

See the Release Notes available on this down load page for other issues.

Package Name
Required Software
Approx. Size
Contains
    urwfonts
     3 MB (URW)++ Free X11 Fonts
    j2jre131
 urwfonts

 runtime
  (above)
  25 MB Runtime Support:
java, the Java virtual machine (JVM); the JIT compiler; Java Foundation Classes (JFC) & Swing Package; and basic API libraries: language support, I/O, AWT, networking, utilities, images, media, math, compression, and security.

Distributed applications and database access:
Remote Method Invocation (RMI); JavaBeansTM (component object model); JDBCTM (database access); Internationalization tools; Security tools; Java IDL tools.

    j2sdk131
 j2jre131   11 MB Development Tools:
appletviewer, the Java Applet Viewer; javac, the Java Compiler; jdb, the command-line Java debugger; javah, the C Header and Stub File Generator for native methods; javap, the Java Class File Disassembler; javadoc, the JAVA API Documentation Generator; jar, the Java Archive (JAR) tool; and assorted other commands used in Java development; class libraries used in Java development; header files used in native code development.
    j2pls131
 j2sdk131   41 MB Java 2 demo applets and applications; Demos of Swing set functionality; native method demos; Java Plug-in demos; Debuggable versions (_g-suffixed) of many of the commands and libraries.
    j2plg131
 j2jre131    1 MB Java 2 Plug-in for Netscape 4.x Navigator or Communicator browsers.

Note: Where one J2SE 1.3.1 package requires another J2SE 1.3.1 package, the version numbers of the packages must be the same. The Java 2 Plug-in package, version 1.3.1.06 requires the Java 2 Runtime, version 1.3.1.06.

Download and Installation

The J2SE 1.3.1 product is distributed as four separate installable Java packages plus a urwfonts package, if needed.

Installation with the UnixWare package tools on UnixWare, Open UNIX or OpenServer

  1. Print or save a copy of this "Getting Started" page for later reference.

  2. Download a copy of the current J2SE 1.3.1_06 Release Notes (ReleaseNotes.html)and save, also for later reference.

  3. Select and download the packages you wish to install. Note that the packages are in compressed pkgadd datastream format.
    File Package Version
      urwfonts.ds.Z   urwfonts   2.0
      j2jre131.06.ds.Z   j2jre131     1.3.1.06
      j2sdk131.06.ds.Z   j2sdk131     1.3.1.06
      j2pls131.06.ds.Z   j2pls131     1.3.1.06
      j2plg131.06.ds.Z   j2plg131     1.3.1.06

  4. Download an install any prerequisite packages, runtime, maintenance packs, maintenance supplements, support level supplements as required in the System Requirements and Supported Platforms of this document.

  5. As root, installed the J2SE packages that you have downloaded.

    Change directory into the directory containing the downloaded package datastreams

    cd  <download-dir>
    Install the J2SE 1.3.1 packages in the following order.
     
    If the package datastreams have been downloaded in compressed format:
    zcat   urwfonts.ds.Z   |   pkgadd -d -
    zcat   j2jre131.06.ds.Z   |   pkgadd -d -
    zcat   j2sdk131.06.ds.Z   |   pkgadd -d -
    zcat   j2pls131.06.ds.Z   |   pkgadd -d -
    zcat   j2plg131.06.ds.Z   |   pkgadd -d -
    If your browser removed the .Z suffix without uncompressing the files:
    zcat   urwfonts.ds   |   pkgadd -d -
    zcat   j2jre131.06.ds   |   pkgadd -d -
    zcat   j2sdk131.06.ds   |   pkgadd -d -
    zcat   j2pls131.06.ds   |   pkgadd -d -
    zcat   j2plg131.06.ds   |   pkgadd -d -
    If the package datastreams have been uncompressed when downloaded with your browser:
    pkgadd   -d  `pwd`/urwfonts.ds
    pkgadd   -d  `pwd`/j2jre131.06.ds
    pkgadd   -d  `pwd`/j2sdk131.06.ds
    pkgadd   -d  `pwd`/j2pls131.06.ds
    pkgadd   -d  `pwd`/j2plg131.06.ds

Important Notes

Documentation

Essential information about this product is contained in the Java 2 Standard Edition,v. 1.3.1_06, for SCO UNIX Operating Systems Release Notes which are distributed with the j2jre131 package and installed in /usr/java2. A more recent edition of the Release Notes is available on this download page.

Be sure to read these notes thoroughly before attempting to use the J2SE 1.3. We recommend that you print out or bookmark these notes for later reference.

Licensing

The J2SE 1.3.1 for SCO UNIX is licensed under the same terms as the host SCO operating system upon which it is installed.


Document version 405-000-042-a
29 July 2003
Copyright © 2003 The SCO Group, Inc. All rights reserved.