After installing IBM® Java™ 5 you must configure the JVM
to successfully launch the Tivoli® Enterprise
Portal browser and Web Start clients.
About this task
Complete the following steps to configure IBM Java 5
for Windows:
Procedure
- 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
Note: 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.