rte vs sdk

[Kirk MacLean_2]

Is it necessary and normal to have all the Java versions shown below installed on a fresh 11i workstation installation? If Java development is not being done on this machine, is there potential for trouble by removing the jdk bundles?

Jdk13 1.3.1.16.00 Java2 1.3 SDK
Jdk14 1.4.2.09.02 Java2 1.4 SDK
Jdk15 1.5.0.01.01 Java 1.5 JDK
Jpi13 1.3.1.16.00 Java2 1.3 Mozilla Plugin
Jpi14 1.4.2.09.02 Java2 1.4 Netscape Plugin
Jre13 1.3.1.16.00 Java2 1.3 RTE 1.3
Jre14 1.4.2.09.02 Java2 1.4 RTE
Jre15 1.5.0.01.01 Java 1.5 JRE

Thank you,

Kirk

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

If you are sure no development is going on with java or products like tomcat which rely on java you can safely remove JDK.

Is not that much disk space though, and its probably worth leaving stables systems stable if you can. I'm 99.9% sure of my answer.

SEP

[Mel Burslan]

Is it potential trouble, removing Java ? Answer is yes. Nowadays, most applications have java components in them and if you remove all of the Java instances at once, you will most probably get some complaints from users. The actual answer is "It depends". If you host an oracle database on this server, you can almost be sure that one of these java instances will be needed.

If you can tell more about this system, like its role in your infrastructure and more importantly a list of software running on it, someone can tell you if any of these app.s need java.

[Kirk MacLean_2]

Mel & SEP: Thank you for the answers.

This is an administrators test and X -query box in a data center. At the moment there are no special applications on it.

Thank you,

Kirk

[Mel Burslan]

if this is an admin test box, I vote on keeping the java instances on as some app.s that you will eventually test one day will need one or the other. Of course, this is true unless you are hard strapped for miniscule amounts of disk space. All by themselves, they do not take that much of space and as long as there are no java app.s running, there should not be a concern of taking up system resources, but again, the choice is yours to keep them or remove them.