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.
- Save the j2re-1_4_2_03-solaris-sparc.sh to the directory you want to install into.
Right click menu, "Save Link As".
- Make sure that execute permissions are set on
the self-extracting binary:
chmod +x j2re-1_4_2_03-solaris-sparc.sh
- Change directory to the location where you would
like the files to be installed.
- 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
- 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
- For Netscape browsers: Start your Netscape browser, or restart
it if it is already up.
- 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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