The installation of the 64-bit version of Sun's HotSpot JDK on Solaris on SPARC is different from the installs of the other versions. To get a 64-bit JDK up and running, you have to download and untar the 32-bit version first. Then, download and untar the 64-bit supplement which will add some additional libraries to the previous 32-bit installation to give the complete 64-bit environment.
- Go here
- Choose "JDK 5.0 Update nn" where "nn" is the latest patch level
- Choose "Solaris SPARC"
- Download and run jdk-1_5_0_17-solaris-sparc.sh
- Download and run jdk-1_5_0_17-solaris-sparcv9.sh
Ensure that in the server startup scripts, the JVM arguments include -d64 to start the 64-bit JVM. Also, in the case of WebLogic, the following line would be necessary in the setDomainEnv.sh script:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$WL_HOME/server/native/solaris/sparc64
Otherwise, you will get the following warning:
Unable to load performance pack. Using Java I/O instead. Please ensure that a native performance library is in...
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