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

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Montag 29 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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?

yes, the bytecode is agnostic. But the vm is not - and look into the 
directory, tons and tons of old crap. If juniper is badly programmed, it might 
trigger some bug in the old stuff.