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Earlier Releases

Follow the links to view documentation for earlier Java releases.

Platform-specific user guides
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".