HOWTO Install a JRE on Sun Solaris 

This article was first written in September 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/174).
It may seem natural that Java should be available on Solaris. Actually, it is, but Solaris 8 for example features an obsolete JRE (Java Runtime Environment), JRE 1.2. Let us see how to install a r(d)ecent JRE on Solaris. Download the JRE for Solaris, and for your architecture.
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