Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

The AppServer that comes with J2EE 1.4 SDK is not evaluation software. It is a fully compatible J2EE 1.4 container. You can use this AppServer any way you want -- development, testing, production, etc. It's completely free and no strings attached.

BTW, to answer your question -- there is no way to download J2EE SDK wihtout the AppServer -- like you said, the SDK is worthless without an AppServer.

Thats bull! I already have an application server. I don't want to install the Sun server. I don't want it to install ANOTHER version of the 1.4SE SDK to support it ( I already have that too, don't need 2 installs).

But the install leaves no options: I either install the app server AND the J2SE to support it or I don't get the J2EE SDK libs!? Thats nuts. As it stands, if I try to put something like this on my dev servers it will change all sorts of runtime variables and add ANOTHER application server AND another copy of the J2SE SDK to the one I already have. My boss won't let me do that! So where does this leave me? Screwed!

This looks like something Micro$oft would pull to force you to create dependencies on thier app servers.

Whose idea was this? You're fired!

that you rust man?

Yup.

you could always go to .net, then you wouldn't have to worry about these things....

Well, I would see some subtle difference between downloading and installing an app server. The servlet jars etc. stuff might be available with your app server, so what you need might only be the API documentation.

You can go here and get j2ee 1.3 for linux. Filesize = 14,863,533 bytes. It's a gzipped tar archive. Winzip should be able to open it.
Seems to only have the core j2ee jar files tho.

So what is an evaluation in this bundle? j2eesdk-1_4-dr-windows-eval.exe

censure means to blame or condemn, you really mean censor

Your already-installed app server, if it's a J2EE app server, has these packages.
The downloadable J2EE 1.4 app server (including the J2EE 1.4 Developer Release and upcoming Sun Java System Application Server 8 PE) is not an evaluation copy, and is completely free. Development, deployment, production. All free.

There are two version you can download at:
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/download-dr.html
The first download link has J2SE 1.4.2 and the samples bundled with it, the other is just the application server (with the packages and so on).

The J2EE 1.4 API documentation is available for download here:
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/download.html#apidocs

-Ian Evans

Those files all seem to be in platform-specific binary files. Where can I get the J2EE SDK in a platform neutral format? I'm on Linux PPC, so the files available are completely useless. This is Java, right? I thought I remembered hearing something about, "Write once, run anywhere?"

Has Sun given up on the portability of Java applications? What's the deal?

Not at all. However, the supported platforms are Linux (x86), Solaris, and Windows 2000/XP. The bundles are for those platforms.

But:
You can likely follow the instructions for installing the bundle on Mac OS X here:
http://java.sun.com/developer/EJTechTips/2003/tt1222.html#1

Scroll down to "Installing the Server." Briefly, this entails unzipping the Linux bundle, and then running the installer manually.

Be sure you've installed openmotif before running the installer.

-Ian Evans