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Linux: 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 Linux:
- Open a shell prompt, making sure you do so as the root user.
- Launch the IBM Java 5 Control Panel application:
cd /opt/ibm/java-i386-50/jre/bin ./ControlPanel
- On the Java Control Panel, click the Java tab.
Figure 1. Java Control Panel
- On the Java tab, click View to see the installed versions of the Java runtime, and to configure the Java runtime arguments for the IBM Java 5 environment.
- Click in the Runtime Parameters entry field associated with the Java 1.5 platform row, choose the one associated with IBM Java Path, and type (or copy-and-paste) the following argument string into the parameters field:
-Xms128m -Xmx256m -Xverify:none
Figure 2. Java Runtime Environment Settings
- Press the Enter key to commit the changes to the parameters field, and click OK to close the JRE Settings sub-panel.
- The Java Control Panel is displayed, 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 3.
Figure 3. Java Control Panel
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 Command to launch default browser branch, make sure you have the correct path for launching the Firefox browser.
- Click Apply to commit the property changes, and click OK to save and close the Java Control Panel.
- You must recycle the Firefox browser for some of the configuration changes to take effect.
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Linux: Installing IBM Java 7