Installing Java

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# 3. Installing Java

Download the latest versions of the Java 2 Development Kit (JDK) or Run-time Engine (JRE), and the accompanying documentation from:

      http://java.sun.com

Installation instructions and release notes for the JDK and JRE are available at the download page.

Make the binary distribution of the JDK executable and extract in a new directory:

      chmod +x jdk-xxx.bin
      cd /usr/local/
      .../jdk-xxx.bin

Install the JDK documentation by unzipping it in the JDK directory:

      cd /usr/local/jdk-xxx/
      unzip .../jdk-xxx-doc.zip

Change the ownership of the JDK directory and make it available as `/usr/local/j2sdk/`:

      chown -R root:root /usr/local/jdk-xxx/
      ln -s /usr/local/jdk-xxx /usr/local/j2sdk

If you need only the JRE, the installation would be like this:

      chmod +x jre-xxx.bin
      cd /usr/local/
      .../jre-xxx.bin
      chown -R root:root /usr/local/jre-xxx/
      ln -s /usr/local/jre-xxx /usr/local/j2re

| Using JDK version 1.5.0 caused our Tomcat server to crash every now and then:
      #
      # An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
      #
      #  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x4042db3f, pid=11991, tid=16386
      #
      # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (1.5.0-b64 mixed mode)
      # Problematic frame:
      # V  [libjvm.so+0x3abb3f]
      #
Upgrading to version 1.5.0-01 seemed to solve these problems.

| For the (previously used) BlackDown Java for Linux distribution: Find yourself a mirror for the BlackDown Java Development Kit at:
      http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html
There you can download the latest versions of the J2 Software Development Kit (SDK) and Run-time Engine (RE). Make sure you pick out the right version for the gcc library installed on your system. You can find out the version currently installed by typing:
      rpm -q libgcc
Installation instructions for the Java Development Kit are available as `INSTALL-j2sdk` and `INSTALL-j2re`. Make the binary distribution of the SDK executable and extract in a new directory:
      chmod +x j2sdk-xxx.bin
      cd /usr/local/
      .../j2sdk-xxx.bin
Change the ownership of the J2SDK directory and make it available as `/usr/local/j2sdk/`:
      chown -R root:root /usr/local/j2sdk-xxx/
      ln -s /usr/local/j2sdk-xxx /usr/local/j2sdk
Do the same for the RE:
      chmod +x j2re-xxx.bin
      cd /usr/local/
      .../j2re-xxx.bin
      chown -R root:root /usr/local/j2re-xxx/
      ln -s /usr/local/j2re-xxx /usr/local/j2re

Since we didn't install the JDK and JRE in our path, we have to add the `bin/` directories to our `$PATH` environment variable. To make sure the Java distributions and classes can be found, we set the `$JAVA_HOME` and `$CLASSPATH` variables as well.

For the Bourne shells, create a file /etc/profile.d/java.sh:

      if ! echo ${PATH} | grep -q /usr/local/j2sdk/bin ; then
        export PATH=/usr/local/j2sdk/bin:${PATH}
        fi
      if ! echo ${PATH} | grep -q /usr/local/j2re/bin ; then
        export PATH=/usr/local/j2re/bin:${PATH}
        fi
      export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/j2sdk
      export CLASSPATH=.:/usr/local/j2sdk/lib/tools.jar:/usr/local/j2re/lib/rt.jar

Set its ownership and access rights:

      chown root:root /etc/profile.d/java.sh
      chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/java.sh

Do the same for C shells, by creating the file /etc/profile.d/java.csh:

      if ( "${path}" !~ */usr/local/j2sdk/bin* ) then
        set path = ( /usr/local/j2sdk/bin $path )
        endif
      if ( "${path}" !~ */usr/local/j2re/bin* ) then
        set path = ( /usr/local/j2re/bin $path )
        endif
      setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/local/j2sdk
      setenv CLASSPATH .:/usr/local/j2sdk/lib/tools.jar:/usr/local/j2re/lib/rt.jar

and setting its ownership and access rights:

      chown root:root /etc/profile.d/java.csh
      chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/java.csh

Now the JDK should be available to everyone on your system.

| You can test the Java engine by typing:
      java -version
or create a file `Test.java`:
      public class Test {
        public static void main(String[] args) {
          System.out.println("Hello world");
          }
        }
and test the compiler:
      javac Test.java
      java Test

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