JDK DST Time Change for 2007

Question

I just got an e-mail from Sun about the DST issue for 2007.
Is Adobe going to come up with a fix for this or should we download
the JDK directly from Sun? We are currently running JDK 1.4.2_04.
Some sort of communication about this issue would be appreciated.
U.S. Daylight Saving Time Changes in 2007
The United States has planned a change to its DST observance
beginning in 2007. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandates that DST
will start on the second Sunday in March and end on the first
Sunday in November. In 2007, the start and stop dates will be March
11 and November 4, respectively. These dates are different from
previous DST start and stop dates. In 2006, the dates were the
first Sunday in April (April 2, 2006) and the last Sunday in
October (October 29, 2006).
If you are concerned about application failures that may
result from these DST changes, you should update your Java Runtime
Environment. The following Java platform versions have correct time
rules to handle the DST changes that will affect U.S. time zones in
2007. You can download any of the following Java platform versions
to resolve this DST issue:
JDK 6 Project (beta)
J2SE 5.0 Update 6 or later
J2SE 1.4.2_11 or later

Answer 1

Ok, I have figured out what the issue is here. I'm posting
this in the hopes
that Adobe will modify their document, "How to upgrade the
JVM that ships with
ColdFusion" at
http://www.adobe.com/go/2d547983.
There are several steps that
are omited or vague, so here is some additional information
that will help you
in the upgrade process.
JVM 1.5.x is NOT supported for ColdFusion. The link
specified for the upgrade
process points to the Java SE page which currently displays
1.5.x as the
current version. Instead go directly to the 1.4.2x page at
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
to get the correct version of the
JVM.
It should also be noted that the default installation for
the JVM points to
C:\Program Files\Java\JDK<version>, this default
directory must be changed
because the java.config file does NOT allow for white space
in the java.home
argument. When installing the JVM you should choose the
?Custom? install and
install to C:\Java or a directory structure that does not
contain spaces. It
may be helpful to rename the JRE directory under Jrun4 and
install to that
directory directly if you don?t want the java files outside
of the Jrun
directory. This is important because if there is white space
in the directory
structure, ColdFusion will not start up and return a ?Service
fails to start
with Service-Specific Error 2? message when starting the
service.
Once you have installed the JVM it is necessary to create a
directory in the
JVM folder called ?Server?. There is already a directory in
the folder called
?Client?. Once you create the Server directory, copy the
contents of the Client
directory into the new directory called Server; this is
completely omitted from
the document and is important to the process for upgrading
the JVM.
Using the above information combined with the document
provided by Adobe, I
was able to install the JVM 1.4.2_11 and ColdFusion started
up using it.
Hopefully these suggestions will help others in the future
when they need to
upgrade the JVM.
Thanks!