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

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

On Monday 29 June 2009 20:31:07 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 
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?
>
> According to my Google search results, a 64-bit Sun Java plug-in has
> been provided starting with Java SE 6 Update 12 Build 02. You should
> be able to select your preferred plug-in and virtual machine using
> eselect (I don't think I have tried it... I can't remember the last
> time I encountered a Java applet on the web)

I said in my original post that I had tried a 64 bit jre without success. It's 
also NOT an applet - it continues to run as it's own full-blown process even 
after the browser exits.

And the correct commands to configure system and user vm's were executed each 
time.

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