On Montag 29 Juni 2009, 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?
yes, the bytecode is agnostic. But the vm is not - and look into the directory, tons and tons of old crap. If juniper is badly programmed, it might trigger some bug in the old stuff.
