Java Tools for HP-UX 11i: Quick Start & Migration Guide

Introduction

There are many tools available for use with Java on HP-UX 11i. Some of these tools are unique to

HP, and some of the tools are also found on other platforms. This paper provides information about

the tools, to help in understanding which tools to use when migrating to the HP-UX 11i platform.

This white paper provides an overview of tools that are designed for use with Java and is divided into

four major parts:

Quick Start – provides an overview of where to find the tools for Java.

Java JDK 6 Tools – provides information about the tools that ship with Java 6 on HP-UX 11i and

Solaris.

HP-UX 11i Java Tools – provides information about the Java tools that are unique to the HP platform.

HP-UX 11i System Tools – provides information about the system tools that are unique to the HP

platform and which provide useful performance information.

Quick Start

Tools Included with the Java 6 JDK

There are a number of tools that are provided by different vendors with their Java 6 JDKs. The

following list contains information about the tools available from Oracle (Sun) with their Java 6 JDK,

and a comparison with the HP-UX 11i platform. Java on HP-UX uses the Hotspot JVM, the same JVM

that is available on other platforms such as Solaris and Windows. For information about Java

versions on HP-UX and how they compare to versions available from Oracle, see the HP-UX 11i Java

Version History document at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-java-docs.

The tools in this category are already present in the JDK and do not require separate installation. This

document does not provide a full description of the tools and command line options.

Additional Tools for the Java 6 JDK on HP-UX 11i

HP provides an additional tool, HPjmeter, which provides a number of different capabilities for the

analysis of Java performance. For more information about HPjmeter, read the HP-UX 11i Java Tools

section later in this paper, or visit the HPjmeter web site at http://www.hp.com/go/hpjmeter. Two

other tools, HPjconfig and Java Out-of-Box, are used to ensure that your HP-UX 11i system is properly

configured for Java applications.

Java 6 JDK Tools

Overview

The following list describes the Java tools that are available as part of the Java 6 JDK on the Solaris

platform. Most of these tools are also available on HP-UX 11i with the same set of options. This

section is not intended to be a reference on using these tools, instead, it calls out differences between

HP-UX 11i and Solaris versions of the tools.

jconsole

JConsole is a graphical tool that can monitor and manage Java applications. It connects to the Java

Management Extensions (JMX) agent in a running JVM.