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Java will run on MPE/iX 6.5, 6.0 or 5.5. If you have not previously installed Java on this system, you may find that certain POSIX libraries are missing. This will typically show up as unresolved externals when trying to run Java. If you have this problem, download the LIBS.hp3000 script below and run it on your system to create the necessary libraries.

Please report any problems found to the Response Center.

New features in this release

1. Fixed 'native stack overflow' seen by Enhydra users
2. Fixed assertion failure in java_g
3. Fixed error in RandomAccessFile.setLength() that affected rmid program

1. Default character encoding is now Roman9, the standard HP 3000 character set, rather than ISO8859-1, the default character set for HP-UX and Solaris. Thanks to LegacyJ for providing the classes to implement Roman9 and Roman8 (Roman9 is Roman8 + Euro support)
2. Fix to read from $STDIN without hanging when device is console or DTC-connected
3. Fix problem where OS Version property was sometimes incorrectly reported
4. Performance improvements to method calls and class loading
5. Fix to Socket.getLocalHost() to report actual host IP address rather than localhost/127.0.0.1
6. Fix to Math.log() where incorrect values were returned
7. Fix to java.util.Date where the date could jump forward incorrectly if called frequently within the same program

(JDK 1.2) New features from JDK 1.2 API Specification

Known limitations in this release

Download the Java code from here

Instructions for downloading:

1. Download the tar format file to your HP 3000 as a binary or bytestream file.
2. Read the installation notes and follow the instructions

Java JDK 1.2.2 for MPE/iX 6.5, 6.0 or 5.5.

Installation notes for Java

Tar file of Java 1.2.2 for MPE/iX 7.0, 6.5 or 6.0 MPE Version A.22.05. Build date 1/23/01. Last updated 1/31/01. Size 29,422,080 bytes.

Compressed tar file of JDK 1.2.2 API documentation Can be installed on any web server (MPE or otherwise) Last updated 11/30/99. Size 16,848,896 bytes

LIBS.hp3000 POSIX shell script to create shared libraries