HOWTO Patch JRE on Solaris 8 on SPARC

Hello, I have been blessed with inheriting a fleet of Solaris 8 boxes which I have to patch for Java/JRE vulrenabilities.
Does anyone know of a HOWTO on how to do that. I just exploded the new JRE version in /usr and changed the link /usr/bin/java to point to /usr/j2res/bin/java. Now when I type java -version, it displays the new version.
However, due to my lack of Solaris knowledge, I am not sure it thats the correct way. I see that there are some coldfusion pricesses that are running on the machine and not sure it they are gradding the right new JRE version.
All you help and advise appreciated.

Hi,
Was there any workarounds for this problem?
I am facing the same with Netscape 4.78 & 4.79 on Solaris with Java plugin 1.3.1
Any workarounds/soultions?
I have a Sun Sparc running Solaris 8 Rel 1/01 with JRE
1.3.1 and Netscape 4.78. I set NPX_PLUGIN_PATH to
/usr/j2se/jre/plugin/sparc/ns4:$MOZILLA_HOME/plugins.
When I look at "about:plugins" in Netscape, I see the
"Java (TM) Plug-in 1.3.1" but none of the plugins are
Enabled. Any ideas???

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