Jasper requires at least Java 2 to run. Except under Windows the full development kit, not just the JRE, is needed. Jasper does not work with Visual J++ or Visual Café. Unless indicated otherwise, you can download the JDK from http://java.sun.com.
Except where indicated, Jasper is built with JDK 1.3.1 and is expected to work with the latest version of JDK 1.4.
Jasper is only supported under the following configurations:
Note that JDK 1.4 is required for 64 bit SPARC Solaris.
There is a bug in Sun JDK 1.3.1 that surfaces when sicstus is the top-level executable, e.g. sicstus -l library/jasper/examples/jqueens.pl. The symptom is similar to:
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: exception occurred in JNI_OnLoad
...
at java.awt.Component.<clinit>(Component.java:356)
...
The underlying problem is that motif21/libmawt.so cannot find
libmlib_image.so A work-around for SPARC is to set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH to java-install-dir/jre/lib/sparc
before invoking sicstus. A similar work-around should work on
x86. This bug is not present in JDK 1.4.1.
Sun's JDK 1.2.2 does not support native threads and therefore does not work.
Note that this is a problem only with development systems. SICStus run-time systems do not use signals, (e.g. when embedding SICStus in Java using the Jasper package.)
Most of the signal handlers used by the SICStus development system
(sicstus) are now turned off
automatically before library(jasper) starts Java. In JDK 1.3.1 the problem with conflicting uses of signals
was recognized and the Java initialization option -Xrs
was added to reduce Java's use of signals.
It makes JDK use signals in a way that is compatible with
the SICStus development system.
There are several ways to pass this flag to Java. The recommended way is
to pass it with jasper_initialize:
bash> sicstus
...
| ?- use_module(library(jasper)),
jasper_initialize(['-Xrs', <other options here>], JVM).
Alternatively, you can pass it using the (not documented in the JDK documentation) environment variable _JAVA_OPTIONS:
bash> export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Xrs'
bash> sicstus
JDK 1.4.2 is now available for Mac OS X. It does not work well when SICStus is the top-level application, e.g. when using the SICStus development system. In particular, opening GUI components such as Swing, will hang. One work-around is to force the use of JDK 1.3.1 by setting the environment variable DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH before invoking SICStus.
bash> export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3.1/Libraries
bash> sicstus -i
libsprt312.dylib.
Sun's JDK 1.2.2 and JDK 1.4.x are also expected to work, but
are not tested.
The AIX version of JDK 1.3.1 requires some environment variables to
be set before invoking an application that embeds the Java VM. For this
reason, the following environment variables should be set before starting
a SICStus executable that uses library(jasper):
bash$ export AIXTHREAD_SCOPE=S
bash$ export AIXTHREAD_MUTEX_DEBUG=OFF
bash$ export AIXTHREAD_RWLOCK_DEBUG=OFF
bash$ export AIXTHREAD_COND_DEBUG=OFF
bash$ export LDR_CNTRL=USERREGS
bash$ sicstus
...
See the AIX JDK 1.3.1 readme (/usr/java131/README.HTML) for futher details.