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

The Solaris 8 10/00 release includes the JDK 1.1.8_10, which is improved with bug fixes. 

The Solaris 8 10/00 release includes the Java 2 Standard Edition v. 1.2.2_05a, which is a bug-fix release of v. 1.2.2_05 (without the "a") of the same product and includes the following new features and enhancements. 

• Scalability improvements to over 20 CPUs

  Improved handling of concurrency primitives and threads has increased the performance of multithreaded programs and significantly reduced garbage-collection pause times for programs that use many threads.

• Improved JIT compiler optimizations

  The JIT compiler performs the following new optimizations: inlining of virtual and non-virtual methods, CSE within extended basic blocks, loop analysis to eliminate array bounds checking, and fast type checks.

• Text-rendering performance improvements

  Several graphics optimizations have significantly improved text-rendering performance for Java 2 Standard Edition on Solaris software platforms without Direct Graphics Access (DGA) support. These platforms include Ultra 5, Ultra 10, the Solaris (Intel Platform Edition) Operating Environment and all remote display systems.

• poller class demo package

  Provides Java applications with the ability to efficiently access the functions of the C poll(2) routine and is provided as a demo package with a sample usage server.

• Swing improvements

  Significant improvements in quality and performance have been made to the Swing classes. For additional information on these improvements, see the following URLs:

  • http://Java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/changes.html

  • http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/fixedbugs/index.html