SDK/RTE 1.4.2.28 Release Notes

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Overview..............................................................................................................................6
Features.................................................................................................................................6
New in the 1.4.2.28 Release ............................................................................................7
HotSpot 1.4.2.28 Server JVM ..........................................................................................7
Equivalent Oracle release ...............................................................................................9
Installation..........................................................................................................................10
Patches ..........................................................................................................................10
HP-UX PA-RISC System Requirements .......................................................................10
HP-UX HP Integrity System Requirements .................................................................10
Installation instructions.................................................................................................10
Installing into an alternate location ..............................................................................12
File structure JDK/JRE ..................................................................................................13
File structure Runtime Plug-in (JPI) for Mozilla...........................................................14
Usage Documentation........................................................................................................15
Removing support for unwanted architectures in the JRE ..........................................15
Support for dynamic thread local storage (TLS) ..........................................................15
Signal Chaining Functionality ......................................................................................16
Support for C++ applications built with -AA and -AP options (PA-RISC) only ..........16
Using Java 2 JNI on HP-UX ..........................................................................................16
HotSpot JVM Options ..................................................................................................17
Garbage collectors: Parallel, Concurrent mark, and Sweep .........................................17
Allocating physical memory and swap in the Java heap .............................................17
Asian TrueType fonts and Asian locales ......................................................................17
Date/Time methods defaults ........................................................................................17
Profiling ........................................................................................................................18
Closing a socket when accept or read is pending (PA-RISC) - new patch information!
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Compatibility with previous releases ..........................................................................18
Runtime Plug-In usage and configuration ...................................................................18
GC log-rotation support ...............................................................................................19
ThreadDumpPath support ...........................................................................................20
Additional HP and Oracle Java documentation ..........................................................20
Problem Fixes......................................................................................................................21
Defects fixed in the SDK 1.4.2.28 release ......................................................................21
PA-RISC Known issues.......................................................................................................21
Recommend setting PTHREAD_SUSPEND_SYNC to 1 under certain conditions
(HP-UX 11.31 (11i v3)) ..................................................................................................22
shl_load HotSpot libjvm problem due to TLS (HP-UX 11.0 PA-RISC) .................22
64-bit Support X/Motif (HP-UX 11.00 & 11.11 (11i v1) PA-RISC) ................................22
64-bit Support - System Call (HP-UX 11.00 PA-RISC) .................................................22
/dev/poll Runtime Support (HP-UX 11.00 & 11.11 (11i v1) PA-RISC) ....................22
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