IBM Updates to Java and Browser Available

May 19, 2002 by Bob St.John

IBM has updated the Java Run Time and Java Development Kit files on May 17, 2002. These files are now available from the "Fixes and Features" area of the http://www.ecomstation.com site.

IBM has updated the IBM Broswer 1.2, also on May 17. The English and German versions of these files are now available from the "Upgrade Protection" area of the http://www.ecomstation.com site.

Paul Smedley, an OS/2 user of (great) renown in Australia, send me the following text in an email: "Just thought I'd let you know that the problems with the JITC crash persist with the Java 1.3.1 release from 17/5/2002. Setting SET JAVA_COMPILER=xxx in config.sys makes Java problems run slower (it turns off the Just In Time Compiler) but they at least run."

This appears to be an issue on some AMD hardware. We'll post more when we know more.

Regards, Bob St.John Serenity Systems