Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: How to use 32 bits JRE on Windows 7 64 bits computer? Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:31:02 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 27 Message-ID: <7el2t79rbtbmtk53sd1ji41fqqo630n2v4@4ax.com> References: <018d458b-c915-4b2d-8397-65b297e649a2@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: Z2l1DcCELS0rATq8NqV4Sw.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: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15097 On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:46:11 -0700 (PDT), zyng wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >Right now, for some reason, we hope that 32 bits JRE is used when running a commercial Java program. > Is this only the matter of setting the environment variable JAVA_HOME? We have tried that and it didn't show the effect we expected. Astoundingly, the browsers find and load the appropriate JVM automagically. Chrome needs a little help, but basically it is automatic. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/googlechrome.html You can verify this by running http://mindprod.com/applet/wassup.html Try out IE 64 bit, and Firefox 32 bit or any of the other browsers at http://mindprod.com/jgloss/browser.html look for os.arch = amd64 vs x86 for 64 bit vs 32 bit or references to Program Files vs Program Files (x86). This applies to windows. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. ~ Brian W. Kernighan 1942-01-01 .