Sun Java Studio Mobility 6 2004Q3 Getting Started Guide

This chapter contains information that you need before you install the Sun Java Studio Mobility 6 IDE. This release of Sun Java Studio includes the J2ME Wireless Toolkit, J2ME Wireless Connector Wizard, the RetroGuard obfuscator, and support for the ProGuard obfuscator. The installation of these products with the Sun Java Studio installer results in an integrated enterprise level tool for developing and deploying applications written in the Java programming language using J2ME and J2EE concepts.

This chapter covers:

• Overview of the Installation Process
• Supported Platforms
• System and Disk Space Requirements
• Verifying Your J2SE Platform
• Supporting Previous Software Releases
• Having the Correct User Privileges

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Overview of the Installation Process

This section describes the general process for installing and configuring the Sun Java Studio IDE on your system.

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Supported Platforms

The Sun Java Studio Mobility IDE is supported on the following platforms:

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• Red Hat Linux 8
• Sun Java Desktop System 1.0
• Solaris 9 OS (32-bit/64-bit, UltraSPARC^® III)

The J2ME Wireless Toolkit has been tested with the following systems:

• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 systems
• Microsoft Windows 2000 systems

The J2ME Wireless Toolkit has been tested on a limited basis with the following, unsupported systems:

• Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
• Solaris 8 operating environment
• Solaris 9 OS (32-bit/64-bit, UltraSPARC^® III)
• Red Hat Linux 9

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System and Disk Space Requirements

TABLE 1-2 lists the system requirements needed to install a minimum configuration on any of the supported platforms.

These are general guidelines. Your requirements might vary depending on which additional software you have installed for use with the Sun Java Studio.

Disk Space Requirements

The following section lists the disk space requirements by platform.

Temporary Space Requirement

Running the installer requires sufficient temporary space to unpack the installation files.

• On UNIX^® systems, the installer uses the /tmp or the /var/tmp directory.
• On a Microsoft Windows system, the installer uses the directory as specified by the user variable TEMP in the System Properties settings.

Space Requirements by Platform

The space requirements are described in TABLE 1-3 for Microsoft Windows and TABLE 1-4 for Linux systems.

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Verifying Your J2SE Platform

To install the Sun Java Studio IDE you must have one of the following:

• The J2SE, version 1.4.1_02 platform or later 1.4.x version installed locally.
• Network access to the path in which the J2SE version 1.4.1_02 platform or later 1.4.x version is installed

You can find the J2SE platform versions at http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html.

At this site, you can access current versions as well as archived J2SE platform versions. Sun maintains the download site for previously released versions of the J2SE platform and related products that have completed the end-of-life process and are no longer covered by standard support contracts. These downloads are made available as a courtesy to developers to assist in problem resolution. Look for the section titled "Download Archived Releases" or the Archived Downloads link.

• Identify which J2SE platform version is available to your system by typing the following command at a command line.

java -version

The output looks similar to the following:

java -version

java version "1.4.1_02"

Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1_02-b02)

Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.1_02-b02, mixed mode)

If you do not have the J2SE version 1.4.1_02 platform or later 1.4.x version available to your system, you must install the supported platform.

Depending on how you have your PATH environment variable set, the java -version command may not return complete results. If this command does not return the correct version and you know you have a suitable J2SE version on your system, use the command line option, -is:javahome, to specify the path. See Appendix B for details.

1. Obtain the appropriate platform-specific installer file from http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html.

TABLE 1-6 lists the installer file names for each supported platform.

2. Install the J2SE version 1.4.1_02 platform or later 1.4.x version on your system.

Installation instructions can be found on the web site.

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Supporting Previous Software Releases

To upgrade your previous version of the Sun Java Studio Mobility IDE, you must do one of the following:

• To keep your previous version of the IDE, identify a different directory in which to install the Sun Java Studio Mobility IDE software when prompted during installation.

To use the same installation directory as the previous IDE version, first uninstall the previous version of the IDE prior to installing Sun Java Studio Mobility software. See the Getting Started Guide for your currently installed version of the IDE.

• To keep your current IDE user settings, specify the location of your current user directory when prompted during the initial IDE setup on the Settings Import wizard. See Setting Up the IDE.

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Having the Correct User Privileges

You must have Administrator privileges to install the Sun Java Studio Mobility on the Windows 2000 or Windows XP platforms.

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