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Windows: Java 5 post-installation configuration
After installing IBM Java 5 you must configure the JVM to successfully launch the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser and Web Start clients.
To configure IBM Java 5 for Windows:
- Open your Windows Control Panel folder and locate the IBM Java 5 application icon.
Figure 1. IBM Java 5 application icon
- To launch the Java Control Panel, double-click the IBM Java 5 application icon.
- On the Java Control Panel, click the Java tab.
Figure 2. Java Control Panel
- Click View to list the installed versions of the Java runtime and to configure the Java runtime arguments for the IBM Java 5 environment.
- The Java 1.5 platform row should be the first (or only) row in the Java Runtime Environment list. Click in the Runtime Parameters entry field for this row and type (or copy-and-paste) the following argument string into the parameters field:
-Xms128m -Xmx256m -Xverify:none
Figure 3. Java Runtime Environment list
- Press the Enter key to commit the changes to the parameters field, and click OK to close the JRE Settings sub-panel.
- Click Apply to save your changes before continuing with the rest of the configuration.
- Click the Advanced tab and expand the branches in the property tree, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4. Java Control Panel Advanced tab
Configure the following properties in the Advanced tab:
- Under the Debugging branch, select the following two properties:
- Enable tracing
- Show applet lifecycle exceptions
- Under the <APPLET> tag support branch, select the following two properties (if not already selected):
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Mozilla and Netscape
Only one of these properties might be listed, depending on what browsers you have installed on the machine.
- Under the Miscellaneous branch, select the following property:
- Place Java (TM) icon in system tray
Click OK to continue.
- Click Apply to commit the property changes, and click OK to save and close the Java Control Panel.
- You must recycle the browser for some of the configuration changes to take effect. Close the browser that you are using to launch the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser or Web Start client.
Results
You have successfully configured IBM Java 5.
Parent topic:
Windows: Installing IBM Java 7