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Date:	Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:47:43 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Java 1.1.8 kludging (was: Anyone instant message?)

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Michael Rakijas wrote:
>
> > I *think* you can use Java 1.1.8 plus some of the newer
> > Java "libraries" (whatever the J guys call them) from
> > the Sun website. . . .
> > (thank you Timothy Sipples for telling me how).
>
> This is interesting in all circumstances irrespective of IM.
> Do you have a URL reference?

No. Tim wrote an article somewhere (maybe OS/2 e-Zine or VOICE) which
iirc was about Limewire, so you can check those archives. But it wasn't
clear from the article how to "upgrade" Java 1.1.8 so that Limewire
would run, and I got the actual instructions from Tim in a private
email.

I think I had to download a Java file from the Sun website (remember
that Java runs on a virtual engine so these Java "libraries" should run
on any operating system that has a Java virtual engine running), unzip
the file, and move some of the files to my Java path.

Terry Warren also knows how to do this. He gave a SCOUG presentation a
little over a year ago which included this information. (I interviewed
him for an article about this last summer but suddenly got involved in
my in-laws' legal problems and the article was never finished.)

Innotek in Europe offers (for free I think) a software package that does
this upgrade. Go to

http://www.innotek.de/products/javaos2/

for their "OS/2 Kit for Java" which installs Sun Java on OS/2. Terry
told me that both Sun and IBM use the same source code for these Java
libraries but IBM spends a little more time debugging them.

- Peter

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