What's New in the Solaris 9 Operating Environment

Software Developer Environment

Feature Description
SPARC: 64-bit Developer Environment The Solaris 7 operating environment provides developers with complete 32-bit and 64-bit development environments.
Runtime Linker The runtime linker permits programs to find shared libraries without having to set `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` and makes the loading of shared libraries even more efficient.
Display Enhancements to the `man` Utility The `man` utility is now able to display man pages that are coded with SGML, as well as the traditional `nroff`.
Solaris 64-bit X Window Libraries All of the core X11 shared libraries (`.so`) and all lint libraries (`.ln`) that were provided for developers in 32-bit versions are available in 64-bit versions for 64-bit Solaris software.
Java Development Kit for Solaris Performance Improvements The Java Development Kit 1.1.5 for Solaris has been specially tuned and tested. As a result, it offers significantly improved scalability and performance for Java applications that are developed for, and deployed in, the enterprise and across the network.
WebNFS Software Development Kit Included The WebNFS Software Development Kit (SDK) provides remote file access for Java applications that use WebNFS. Because it implements the NFS protocol directly, the SDK requires no NFS support on the host system.
Function-Call Tracing: `truss` Utility The `truss` utility traces the system calls, signals, and machine faults of a process. This utility has been enhanced with a new option to enable entry and exit tracing of user-level function calls that are executed by the traced process.
Improved Device Configuration Library The `libdevinfo` library, which is used to obtain device configuration information, has been made more robust and comprehensive in Solaris 7 software. For more information, see the man page `libdevinfo`(3).

Feature Description

SPARC: 64-bit Developer Environment

The Solaris 7 operating environment provides developers with complete 32-bit and 64-bit development environments.

Runtime Linker

The runtime linker permits programs to find shared libraries without having to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and makes the loading of shared libraries even more efficient.

Display Enhancements to the man Utility

The man utility is now able to display man pages that are coded with SGML, as well as the traditional nroff.

Solaris 64-bit X Window Libraries

All of the core X11 shared libraries (.so) and all lint libraries (.ln) that were provided for developers in 32-bit versions are available in 64-bit versions for 64-bit Solaris software.

Java Development Kit for Solaris Performance Improvements

The Java Development Kit 1.1.5 for Solaris has been specially tuned and tested. As a result, it offers significantly improved scalability and performance for Java applications that are developed for, and deployed in, the enterprise and across the network.

WebNFS Software Development Kit Included

The WebNFS Software Development Kit (SDK) provides remote file access for Java applications that use WebNFS. Because it implements the NFS protocol directly, the SDK requires no NFS support on the host system.

Function-Call Tracing: truss Utility

The truss utility traces the system calls, signals, and machine faults of a process. This utility has been enhanced with a new option to enable entry and exit tracing of user-level function calls that are executed by the traced process.

Improved Device Configuration Library

The libdevinfo library, which is used to obtain device configuration information, has been made more robust and comprehensive in Solaris 7 software. For more information, see the man page libdevinfo(3).