Using version 1.509.4

The JDK installer is configured to download JDKs from "java.sun.com"
We have different types of slaves in the cluster: Linux 32/64-bit, Windows, Solaris amd64, Solaris SPARC v9.

As notices in the Oracle's documentation[1], "Installing the 64-bit JRE for the Solaris operating system on SPARC, x64, and EM64T platforms is a two-step process."

• First one downloads and installs 32-bit archive (98 MB in case of JDK7u45 for Solaris SPARC [2])
• Then the 32->64 delta should be downloaded and installed into the same dir (18MB in case of JDK7u45 for Solaris SPARC 64-bit [2])

Looks like Jenkins performs only the second part of this recipe. Here is what we have in the Solaris-SPARC-64-bit slave's log:

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Downloading JDK from http://download.oracle.com/otn/java/jdk/7/jdk-7-solaris-sparcv9.tar.gz
Downloading 12979380bytes
Installing /home/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/JDK_7/jdk.sh
[JDK_7] $ tar xvzf /home/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/JDK_7/jdk.sh
jdk1.7.0/
jdk1.7.0/lib/
. . .
jdk1.7.0/bin/sparcv9/java
. . .

[hello-world] $ /home/jenkins/tools/hudson.tasks.Ant_AntInstallation/Ant_1.8.1/bin/ant -file build.xml
Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly.
We cannot execute /home/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/JDK_7/bin/java
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The "java" executable was not created because the downloaded archive did not contain it.

[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/install-solaris-64-142882.html
[2] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html