Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Applet can't detect 64-bit JRE Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:23:45 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 16 Message-ID: <07gu57912761su59pvgp9sohe45fcnmlor@4ax.com> References: <7NOdnY4GqoJGENHTnZ2dnUVZ_judnZ2d@westnet.com.au> <48ae1b51-ad02-4f11-9a5d-0588646ff870@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7516 On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:18:58 -0700 (PDT), Lew wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >Applets have differed from applications since forever. > >One reason why is that the former are hosted by the browser, the latter by the client machine itself. With Applets, there is a layer of glue, a DLL that the browser uses to run Applets. With Applications and Java Web Start, the JVM runs the code directly. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith (born: 1908-10-15 died: 2006-04-29 at age: 97)