JDK Installation

Performance of the tutorial assumes access to the J2SE 1.3.1 or 1.4.0 SDK.

Note   If you are using the evaluation version of Test RealTime, only the Windows option is available. You must have the full versions of Test RealTime in order to perform the tutorial on Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and AIX.

If neither J2SE distribution is currently installed on your machine, you can freely download them as described here. The following are the recommended J2SE distributions. Technically, any SDK that is 100% J2SE 1.3.1 or 1.4.0 compliant can be used with Test RealTime. However, only the following distributions have been verified as supported.

To install J2SE 1.3.1 on Windows:

  1. Go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download.html

  2. Select the SDK download link for "Windows (all languages)"

  3. Download and install the SDK onto your machine

To install J2SE 1.4.0 on Windows

  1. Go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/download.html

  2. Select the SDK download link for "Windows (all languages, including English)"

  3. Download and install the SDK onto your machine

To installJ2SE 1.3.1 on Solaris:

  1. Go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download.html

  2. Select either SDK download link for the Solaris SPARC

  3. Download and install the SDK onto your machine

To install J2SE 1.4.0 on Solaris

  1. Go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/download.html

  2. Select the SDK download link for the 32-bit or 64-bit Solaris SPARC distribution

  3. Download and install the SDK onto your machine

To install J2SE 1.3.1 on Linux (both RedHat and SuSE):

  1. Go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download.html

  2. Select the SDK download link for "Linux GNUZIP Tar shell script"

  3. Download and install the SDK onto your machine

To install J2SE 1.4.0 on Linux (both RedHat and SuSE)

  1. Go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/download.html

  2. Select the SDK download link for "Linux GNUZIP Tar shell script"

  3. Download and install the SDK onto your machine.

To install the Java SDK HP-UX

  1. Go to http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/java2/sdkrte1_3/index.html

  2. Select the Downloads link

  3. Select the link SDK (includes RTE) for Java 2 version 1.3.1.05 (April, 2002)

  4. You will have to accept a license agreement and then register with HP; do so, and then download and install the SDK onto your machine.

To install the Java SDK on AIX

  1. Go to http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/aix/index.html

  2. Select the Register and Download link

  3. Select the Java 1.3.1 download link appropriate for your version of AIX

  4. You will have to register with IBM; do so, and then download and install the SDK onto your machine.