IBM Java

Description

IBM used to develop the Java runtime and development environment until version 1.3.1. Some releases used to be available for free, but the latest were only available under a paid subscription. Now the IBM Java for OS/2 is discontinued.

Versions

IBM Java for OS/2

• 1.0 beta 1 (Jan 1996) - IBM OS/2 Java Developer's Kit
• 1.0 (Sep 1996)
• 1.0.1 (Oct 1996) - included in OS/2 Warp Version 4
• 1.0.2 (Apr 1997) - Software Choice catalog - javaos2.zip

Runtime updates included in Netscape 2.02 (SR8 - 1998)

IBM OS2 Warp Developer Kit, Java Technology Edition

• 1.1.0 (Apr 1997) - alpha prerelease
• 1.1.1 (Oct 1997) - beta prerelease
• 1.1.4 (Feb 1998) - better Unicode support, JDBC
• 1.1.6 (Jun 1998) - Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP), Year 2000 ready
• 1.1.7 (1999) required for TCP/IP 4.3, Communications Server 6.01
• 1.1.8 (2000) required for IBM DB2 7.2

Last updates:

• Release 1.1.8: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/java/system/java118.zip
• Release 1.1.8 Fixes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/java/system/java118fixes.zip

IBM OS2 Warp Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition

• 1.3.0 (2001)
• 1.3.1 (2002)

Last update: 1.3.1 SR 9 (Dec 2005)

License

Commercial, Discontinued

Author

IBM

Links

• IBM's OS/2 Java Progress
• Release 1.1.1 Fixes