DST Java tzupdater

[John M.]

Hello, in the readme file for tzupdater can some explain this statement:

"Any executing instances of the JDK/JRE to be operated upon must be stopped
prior to running the TZupdater tool against that installed JDK/JRE on-disk
image."

Is there a daemon to be stopped/started or something else (processes to kill).

Could someone elaborate on the implications of doing the above once its identified what to stop?
Thanks very much,
John

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

What I think the statement means is that processes using java must be stopped. Oracle for example uses java in each sqlplus session.

Thats a rather demanding requirement but thats how I'd interpret it.

SEP

[John M.]

Thanks Steve for input. I reposted the question to generate some more discussion.

[Rick Garland]

I would like to see more discussions. I have a post http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1089014
that poses some more questions as well.

One example - I still do not find a tzupdater for java1.3. What gets downloaded says 1.4 and when I try to update java1.3 it only errors out.

[Christian Tremblay]

The tzupdater tool works only on java versions higher than 1.4 :-(

Chris

[Craig Johnson_1]

My understanding is that Java 1.3.1.18 has the lastest TZ info. Upgrading your Java 1.3.x releases to that version might be the solution for applications that are 1.3 dependent. Anybody?

[Dennis Handly]

>Craig: My understanding is that Java 1.3.1.18 has the lastest TZ info.

The java team sent me this before:
The US DST changes have been fixed in the following versions of the
HP-JRE/JDK:
1.3.1.18
1.4.2.11
1.5.0.03
See: http://www.hp.com/go/java

So it seems Craig is correct.