Java 1.4.2 release date

[Peter Callies]

When will Java 1.4.2 for HP-UX be released? I've seen benchmark results posted on the SPEC site using 1.4.2.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

It looks like the latest is 1.4.1. See here for the most current including SPEC ratings:

http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/

Regards!

...JRF...

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Peter,

It's still barely out of beta on the java.sun.com site, so I'd say it will be a month or so minimum before HP releases the package.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Peter Callies]

Jeff, check out the results on the SPEC site (http://www.spec.org/osg/jbb2000/results/res2003q3/jbb2000-20030708-00204.html). Notice that 1.4.2.00 is listed as the JVM version.

BTW, 1.4.2 isn't exactly new on the Sun site. 1.4.2.01 is even available now.

[Dave Mayfield]

Peter,

Did you ever receive a useful reply or find out through some other means? I have been using the java.nio package with 1.4.1 on HP-UX and I would like a bug fix/workaround that Sun added to the Windows JRE in 1.4.2. (I hope it'll be available on HP-UX, too)

Dave Mayfield

[Peter Callies]

Unfortunately, I didn't receive a useful response. I'm looking forward to the improvements in the new collectors and the monitoring support.

I'm really looking forward to the new, comprehensive monitoring that will be available in 1.5. It'll be great to be able to enable and disable monitoring during runtime (yes, I know this can be done with eprof) and get streaming monitoring information.