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Solaris 8 Software Developer Supplement

Chapter 1 What's New at a Glance

This chapter highlights new features added to the SolarisTM 8 Update releases.

Note -

For the most current man pages, use the man command. The Solaris 8 Update release man pages include new feature information not found in the Solaris 8 Reference Manual Collection.

Table 1-1 Solaris 8 Update Features
 

Feature 

First Released  

 

Drivers 
 

You can use Generic LAN driver (GLD) to implement much of the STREAMS and Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI) functionality for a Solaris network driver. Until the Solaris 8 10/00 release, the GLD module was available only for Solaris Intel Platform Edition network drivers. Now GLD is available for Solaris SPARC Platform Edition network drivers as well.

For more information, see Chapter 2, Drivers for Network Devices.

10/00 
 

Chapter 3 provides a detailed description of how to design drivers to support High Availability through driver hardening and ensuring serviceability. This material extends information provided in the Solaris 8 Writing Device Drivers.

For more information, see Chapter 3, High Availability Drivers.

10/00 

 

More Software Developer Information 
 

SPARC: Multithreaded Programming Guide has been updated with bug fixes: 4308968, 4356675, 4356690.

1/01 

 

Additional partial locales for European Solaris software includes the addition of Universal Transformation Format-8 (UTF-8) locales for Russian and Polish and two new locales for Catalan. 

For more information, see "Additional Partial Locales for European Solaris Software".

10/00 

 

A number of new features have been added for linkers and libraries. 

For more information, see "Linkers and Libraries Guide Updates".

1/01 and 10/00 

 

Java 

 

The Solaris 8 1/01 release includes the JDKTM 1.2.2_06 and JDK 1.1.8_12, which are improved with bug fixes since the last release.

1/01 

 

The Solaris 8 10/00 release includes the following new features in the JDK 1.2.2_05a.

  • Scalability improvements to over 20 CPUs

  • Improved just-in time (JIT) compiler optimizations

  • Text-rendering performance improvements

  • poller class demo package

  • Swing improvements

For more information, see Table 5-1.

10/00 

 

32-bit: With the addition of the mod_jserv module and related files, the Apache web server now supports JavaTM servlets.

For more information, see "Java Servlet Support in Apache Web Server".

10/00 

 

Early Access 
 

This release includes an Early Access (EA) directory with EA software. For more information, see the Readme on the Solaris Software CD 2 of 2.