From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MLLdF-0007Px-7r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:31:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA3FCE0549; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:31:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f227.google.com (mail-gx0-f227.google.com [209.85.217.227]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9859BE0549 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:31:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk27 with SMTP id 27so15967913gxk.10 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:31:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+egpzFF1lyffz0WAXkePCGn7iAzRP/QLpTfKL2QmHC0=; b=nD2Xpn1QIUlIPSjJwzHaelOM4I+wZsw97Gtwap8ArdNPFGYM4IEy0dATkD5UfcrsG7 UJzO2HsoHapSaDGVAETdsOEO5mky50XKal4cEmi0RZyfZeacI+d++euUQNF7Hz/TolCo XYytsoQEUcW1HI0X2nrtvBDnHmiba8GEidsgM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=gxZ3aMu4uitQfoXc8OkoN8ZcindUgsuE6WpbXR+vu9ZJM+WtLYzYBoFx5DDHDhCRiA f3w1Sgy8fD2kVtPAcWL7NfacuWi8UZPBgZYNNhrCGxydF4Sw97PzkUK+DvKTHzgwEEUL NyitcunuWpBntZ2IJ7ieX5H+7Br/HxaBs8P3s= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.228.17 with SMTP id a17mr3493292ybh.107.1246300267356; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:31:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200906291837.30791.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <200906291837.30791.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:31:07 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 36fa1d7c49a49a2f Message-ID: <58965d8a0906291131m4138fa3ub130288f28a6c96b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps in 64 bit JVM? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e212ac7c-f3ff-4389-a895-7612013daf4e X-Archives-Hash: db4346a147d79cc46e7d94b5dde57c0a On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:37 AM, 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? 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)