HP-UX 11i Java™ JDK/JRE Version 7.0.09 Release Notes

Contents
HP secure development lifecycle...................................................................................................5
Overview................................................................................................................6
Java SE 7 Features....................................................................................................6
New in the 7.0.09 release ........................................................................................8
Equivalent Oracle release.....................................................................................8
HotSpot JVM ......................................................................................................8
Problem fixes.......................................................................................................9
Defects fixed in the 7.0.09 release ........................................................................9
Security fixes in the 7.0.09 release.......................................................................10
Installation.............................................................................................................11
Required patches ..............................................................................................11
HP-UX system requirements .................................................................................13
Installation instructions........................................................................................13
Installing the JDK or JRE from the single download bundle.......................................13
Installing into an alternate location ......................................................................14
File structure JDK/JRE ........................................................................................15
Removing support for unwanted architectures in the JRE..........................................16
Usage documentation.............................................................................................16
X/Open Socket Support.....................................................................................16
Handling large GC log files................................................................................16
G1 Garbage Collector and -Xverbosegc...............................................................17
Change in loading of .hotspot_compiler and .hotspotrc files....................................17
Change in default for UseParallelOldGC option.....................................................17
Option -XX:+SXTElimination enabled by default in 7002.........................................18
Obsolete Options..............................................................................................18
Obsolete Environment Variable............................................................................18
Change in JVM error message at start up..............................................................18
Lower initial RSS starting in JDK 6.0.03................................................................18
Interruptible I/O support is disabled by default on JDK 7.0......................................19
Known issues.........................................................................................................19
Running Java applications with hyperthreading enabled.........................................19
Stream Control Transport Protocol (SCTP) supported with limitation...........................20
libjvm.so no longer links with libstd_v2.so.............................................................21
Recommend setting PTHREAD_SUSPEND_SYNC to 1 under certain conditions (HP-UX
11.31 (11i v3)) ...................................................................................................21
Supplementary characters display as empty boxes.................................................21
Initializing a JVM instance with JNI_CreateJavaVM() or attaching to JVM with
AttachCurrentThread() on HP Integrity ..................................................................21
Using linker option +noenvvar and +compat.........................................................21
Running Java with setuid or setgid on HP Integrity Systems......................................21
X/Open Socket Support.....................................................................................22
Contents 3