On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckin...@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)
