IBM developer kits

The IBM Centre for Java Technology Development provides Developer Kits for creating and testing Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition applets and applications on some of IBM's most popular platforms.

• Platform-specific user guides
  
  • AIX
  • Linux
  • z/OS
  
  
• Security documentation
  We have documentation, example code, and ancillary files. We have now added a new level of the iKeyman User guide and a JAR file containing the IBM JCE FIPS provider cryptographic module that is certified at Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 [Level 1].
  
  
• Security alerts
  We have information about which IBM Developer Kits include fixes for recently-discovered vulnerabilities.
  
  
• Diagnosis documentation
  We have comprehensive IBM Diagnostics Guides relating to IBM's Developer Kits. We have now added a paper describing how to maximize IBM Java memory address space under a 32-bit Windows system, and a Garbage Collection and Storage Allocation Techniques paper that might prove helpful in tuning performance.
  
  
• Java troubleshooting
  We provide step-by-step techniques that might prove helpful in identifying and responding to some memory or performance problems.
  
  
• Additional documentation
  
  • Porting of Java applications to a 64-bit environment.
  • Bidirectional support (first introduced in the IBM SDK, Version 1.4.1.)
  • A workaround to an accessibility restriction that prevents the selection of discontiguous items from a list using a keyboard. The API restriction causing this problem is resolved in Java 5.0.
  • An RMI-IIOP Programmer's Guide dealing with how to write Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) programs.
  • A Swing Key Bindings document that describes the default key bindings used in the Metal, Windows, and Motif "look and feels".