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Sun Java Enterprise System 5 Update 1 Release Notes

Platform Requirements and Issues

Hardware Requirements by Operating System

The disk space and RAM required to install and use Java ES 5 Update 1 can vary widely, depending on which components you install on a system. The following values are suggested minimums when installing all components on a single system. For more precise values, add together the values from the release notes for the components you are installing on a system.

Operating System 

Processor (System) 

Disk Space 

RAM 

Swap space 

Solaris SPARC 

UltraSPARC II (Sun Enterprise 250) 

6 GB 

4 GB 

Twice the amount of RAM, but at least 4 GB if installing Portal Server 

Solaris x86 

Intel Pentium P4 1GHz, AMD Opteron 248 (Sun v20/40/60z) 

6 GB 

4 GB 

Twice the amount of RAM, but at least 4 GB if installing Portal Server 

Linux 

Intel Pentium P4 1GHz, AMD Opteron 248 (Sun v20/40/60z) 

6 GB 

4 GB 

Twice the amount of RAM, but at least 4 GB if installing Portal Server 

Windows 

Intel Pentium P4 1GHz, AMD Opteron 248 

6 GB 

2 GB (evaluation) 

4 GB (production) 

According to Windows guidelines for paging files 

Solaris Requirements and Issues

Recommended Solaris Update Levels

Although Java ES 5 Update 1 is support on all versions of Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 on SPARC and x86 platforms, Sun recommends that you use the following updates:

Solaris Software Groups Supported

Java ES runs on Solaris systems installed using the following Solaris software groups:

Minimized Installation on Solaris 10 (6331921)

Java ES can also run on a minimized Solaris 10 system installed using SUNWCreq (Core System Solaris Software Group) or SUNWCuser (End User Solaris Software Group), provided you are not installing Sun Cluster or Sun Cluster Geographic Edition.

To install Java ES 5 Update 1 on Solaris 10 system that has SUNWCreq installed, add these packages:

SUNWadmc

SUNWpl5u

SUNWadmfr

SUNWxcu4

SUNWadmfw

SUNWxcu6

If you will be using the graphical (GUI) installer, also add these packages:

SUNWctpls

SUNWxwplr

SUNWmfrun

SUNWxwplt

SUNWxwfnt

SUNWxwrtl

SUNWxwice

 

Note that you must add SUNWxwplt before SUNWxwplr to satisfy dependency requirements.

Note –

Java ES has been tested with the two minimized Solaris 10 installations listed above. However, it is possible that using certain features of Java ES components may require additional packages.

Required Patch Clusters for Solaris

Many Java ES components require particular Solaris patches to operate correctly. The installer checks for these patches based on the components you choose to install, and reports a list of any you need to add. If you are upgrading, or if you want to prepare your system before running the installer, you can download and apply a patch cluster that contains all the operating system patches needed to run all Java ES components. To acquire one of these patch clusters:

  1. Go to http://sunsolve.sun.com.

  2. Click “Patches and Updates”.

  3. Click “Recommended Patch Clusters”.

  4. Locate the patch cluster beginning with “Java ES Required OS” that applies to your OS version and download it.

Note that these patch clusters may contain Solaris kernel patches. Therefore, make sure you:

Also note that most of the OS patches required by Java ES are already included in recent Solaris updates. Therefore, if you are running a recent Solaris update, you can run the Java ES installer to discover the few patches you need to apply and download them instead of downloading the entire patch cluster.

Linux Requirements and Issues

Supported Versions of Linux

Java ES5 Update 1 supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Advanced Server and Enterprise Server) for x86 and x64 platforms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Advanced Server and Enterprise Server) for x86 and x64 platforms, and all updates to these versions.

Sun recommends that you use the latest update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

root is not a valid user on Red Hat Linux 3 update 8 (AS and ES) for x86 (6460658)

When installing Java ES 5 Update 1 on an x86 system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 update 8, the "root" system user is not recognized.

Solution Before installing Java ES, first install the latest coreutils-4.5.3-28.4.i386.rpm and coreutils-4.5.3-28.4.x86_64.rpm from the Red Hat site.

HP-UX Requirements and Issues

Supported Versions of HP-UX

Java ES5 Update 1 supports HP-UX 11i v1 (displayed as 11.11 by the unamecommand) on the PA-RISC 2.0 platform.

Upgrades and patches required for HP-UX

Before installing, configuring, and running Java ES components on HP-UX, you must install certain software updates and patches. The updates are:

The patches are:

These updates and patches are available from the HP IT Resource center, http://itrc.hp.com.

Windows Requirements and Issues

Supported Versions of Windows

Java ES5 Update 1 supports the following versions of Microsoft Windows:

For the supported editions of Windows 2003, Sun recommends that you use SP2 or later.

Platform Virtualization Technologies Supported by Java ES 5 Update 1

Platform virtualization is the ability to run multiple, unrelated guest operating systems in a contained environment on top of shared hardware. Due to the many benefits of platform virtualization, there are a spectrum of virtualization technologies and products available today.

Sun has tested and supports deployments of Java ES 5 and Java ES 5 Update 1 components running on Solaris 10 environments virtualized using the Logical Domains (LDoms) software, which was introduced in Solaris 10 11/06.

LDoms runs on UltraSPARC T1-based and T2-based servers. For information about LDoms, it capabilities, and its requirements, see the Logical Domains documentation collection (http://docs.sun.com/coll/ldom1.0).

If you deploy Java ES components in a supported operating system within a virtualized environment other than LDoms and you encounter a problem, you may be asked to demonstrate the problem in a non-virtualized environment before Sun can respond with service.

Note –

As with deployments in non-virtualized environments, you should allocate recommended resources (processor, memory, storage, and so on) to each virtual machine so as to ensure sufficient levels of application performance. See the component documentation for recommended and supported system requirements.

Web Browsers Supported by Java ES 5 Update 1

Web-based administrative interfaces provided by Java ES 5 Update 1 components support at least the following web browsers:

For information about the web browsers supported by the end user web interfaces provided by Java ES 5 Update 1 components, refer to the release notes for the component that provides the interface. Release notes for Java ES 5 Update 1 components are available at http://docs.sun.com/coll/1315.2. Also, see Component Release Notes.

Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) Requirements

On Solaris and Linux, Java Enterprise System is certified with and includes Java SE 5.0 Update 12 (1.5.0_12), and is certified with Java SE 6 for all components except the High Availability Session Store (HADB). On HP-UX, Java Enterprise System is certified with and includes Java SE 5.0 Update 3 (1.5.0_03). On Windows, Java Enterprise System is certified with and includes Java SE 5.0 Update 12 (1.5.0_12).

Additionally, the following items are compatible with Java SE 1.4.2:

Specific components might support additional versions of Java SE or might have compatibility issues regarding certain versions of Java SE. For information, see the release notes for the component.