On Monday 29 June 2009 20:31:07 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Alan McKinnon<[email protected]> 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. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
