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JavaTM 2 Plug-in for Solaris SPARC


The JavaTM 2 Runtime Environment (including the Plug-in) for Solaris SPARC/x86 can be downloaded here. If you require the Plug-in for another platform, visit the main Plug-in page.


Installation Instructions

Prior to installing the Java 2 Runtime Environment, you should insure that you have installed the full set of required patches needed for support of this release. See Solaris Patch Installation before proceeding.See also the note about the location of the Java HotSpot libjvm.so files.

The Java 2 Runtime Environment (J2RE), Standard Edition, v1.4.2, comes in the form of a self-extracting binary file. Follow the instructions below to install the J2RE. Note the special Java Plug-in installation instructions at the end.

  1. Save the j2re-1_4_2_03-solaris-sparc.sh to the directory you want to install into.
    Right click menu, "Save Link As".
  2. Make sure that execute permissions are set on the self-extracting binary:
    chmod +x j2re-1_4_2_03-solaris-sparc.sh

  3. Change directory to the location where you would like the files to be installed.

  4. Run the self-extracting binary.
    The files will be installed in a subdirectory called j2re1_4_1_02. After the installation is finished, the subdirectory can be renamed as desired.

Install the Java Plug-in

  1. Set the NPX_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable to the directory containing the javaplugin.so file.
    On SPARC, for example, the directory of javaplugin.so in the default installation location will be /usr/j2se/jre/plugin/sparc

  2. For Netscape browsers: Start your Netscape browser, or restart it if it is already up.

  3. For Netscape browsers: Restart your browser a second time.
    Restarting the browser a second time is necessary because of a bug.


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