[gentoo-user] Java apps in 64 bit JVM?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

The company has a Juniper Secure Connect VPN and I run amd64. The process is: 
log in via a web page in a browser, click a button and the page starts a java 
APP to create the ssl tunnel - a full blown Swing app, not a mere applet.

I've only ever got this Java app to run in 32 bit Firefox with the java-x86-
emul package. 64 bit Firefox, Konqueror, Opera all fail. I've tried sun-jdk, 
sun-jre (nsplugin and nsplugin-2), blackdown and icedtea.

The only thing that works is firefox-bin with a 32bit jvm. The app doesn't do 
much in the way of logging so I don't know why it's failing. This strikes me 
as odd:

A java app is bytecode that is independent of platform. It should make no 
difference whether a 32bit or 64bit jvm executes the bytecode as the format of 
the Java Virtual Machine and it's bytecode is constant.

Surely?

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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com