Yep -- you can install the Linux version and it will work just fine; the J2EE 1.3 RI is all-Java, so there's no problem. The only thing you need to do is be certain that you've set your environment variables correctly.
For example, here are the environment variables from my .tcshrc file:
setenv PATH ${PATH}:/Users/kathy/J2EEStuff/j2sdkee1.3.1/bin
setenv JAVA_HOME /usr
setenv J2EE_HOME /Users/kathy/J2EEStuff/j2sdkee1.3.1
setenv CLASSPATH .:${J2EE_HOME}/lib/j2ee.jar
This assumes that I placed the J2EE RI inside a directory named J2EEStuff within my home (kathy) directory.
If you make these changes, be sure you source it or open a new terminal, then you can
test it by trying to open the deploytool:
% deploytool
and see what happens...
good luck!
We had no problems running the j2EE 1.3 RI under both 10.2 and 10.3, and using
Java 1.3 (although
you should have no trouble with Java 1.4).
cheers,
Kathy