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Java(tm) Developer's Kit (JDK) 1.0.2 Release

The Java(tm) Developers Kit (JDK) lets you write applets that conform to the frozen applet API for the Java Programming Language. There have been a few changes since the 1.0.1 release - these changes are described in Changes since the last release.

The JDK comes with two documents. The COPYRIGHT file has copyright and license information about the JDK. The README file has information about the JDK, including:

It also has information on using the Applet Viewer, the format of the APPLET tag, and using the Java Debugger.

How to download the release

The 1.0.2 Solaris release supports only Sun Solaris 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 SPARC-based machines, and Solaris 2.5 x86-based machines.

As a compressed tar file, the 1.0.2 release is just under 5 Meg on SPARC, and just under 7 Meg on x86. Uncompressed and unpacked it will take up just under 9 Meg on SPARC and just over 12 Meg on x86. Documentation is not included in this tar file; it may be found under http://java.sun.com/products/JDK/1.0.2/.

The simplest way to download the release is to click the following link.

This will automatically download a compressed tar file to your machine which you can unpack with the instructions below.

If you prefer, you can download the release via anonymous ftp from the following site:


Don't forget to put ftp in binary mode before downloading! 

    $ ftp ftp.javasoft.com
    Name (ftp.javasoft.com): anonymous
    331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
    Password: user@machine
	<< informational messages <<
    ftp> binary
    200 Type set to I.
    ftp> cd pub/jdk1.0.2
	<< more informational messages <<
    250 CWD command successful.
    ftp> get JDK-1_0_2-solaris2-sparc.tar.Z
    200 PORT command successful.
    150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for JDK-1_0_2-solaris2-sparc.tar.Z (4770701 bytes).
    226 Transfer complete.
    local: JDK-1_0_2-solaris2-sparc.tar.Z remote: JDK-1_0_2-solaris2-sparc.tar.Z
    4770701 bytes received in 1.4e+02 seconds (30 Kbytes/s)
    ftp> quit

Unpacking the Release

 After downloading, you can unpack the release anywhere you like with the following command: 
		/usr/bin/zcat JDK-1_0_2-solaris2-sparc.tar.Z | tar xf -
If you are in the same directory as a current java directory, this release will overwrite the last release. Please be careful to rename the old directory if there are files you would like to keep in it.

This will create a directory java/, containing several directories and files, including src.zip and lib/classes.zip. DO NOT UNZIP THE CLASSES.ZIP FILE. However, if you are interested in the source for some of our classes, you can unzip the src.zip file, and move the files wherever you want. Don't forget to delete the compressed tar file once you have unpacked it.

You can start the Applet Viewer by doing the following:

1. Add java/bin to your path

2. cd to a directory containing an html file:
    cd java/demo/TicTacToe

3. Run the appletviewer on the html file:
    appletviewer example1.html

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