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On Monday 29 June 2009 20:31:07 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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wrote: |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > The company has a Juniper Secure Connect VPN and I run amd64. The process |
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> > is: log in via a web page in a browser, click a button and the page |
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> > starts a java APP to create the ssl tunnel - a full blown Swing app, not |
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> > a mere applet. |
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> > I've only ever got this Java app to run in 32 bit Firefox with the |
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> > java-x86- emul package. 64 bit Firefox, Konqueror, Opera all fail. I've |
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> > tried sun-jdk, sun-jre (nsplugin and nsplugin-2), blackdown and icedtea. |
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> > The only thing that works is firefox-bin with a 32bit jvm. The app |
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> > doesn't do much in the way of logging so I don't know why it's failing. |
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> > This strikes me as odd: |
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> > A java app is bytecode that is independent of platform. It should make no |
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> > difference whether a 32bit or 64bit jvm executes the bytecode as the |
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> > format of the Java Virtual Machine and it's bytecode is constant. |
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> > Surely? |
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> According to my Google search results, a 64-bit Sun Java plug-in has |
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> been provided starting with Java SE 6 Update 12 Build 02. You should |
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> be able to select your preferred plug-in and virtual machine using |
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> eselect (I don't think I have tried it... I can't remember the last |
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> time I encountered a Java applet on the web) |
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I said in my original post that I had tried a 64 bit jre without success. It's |
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also NOT an applet - it continues to run as it's own full-blown process even |
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after the browser exits. |
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And the correct commands to configure system and user vm's were executed each |
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time. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |