Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: How to use 32 bits JRE on Windows 7 64 bits computer? Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:49:26 +0200 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <018d458b-c915-4b2d-8397-65b297e649a2@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 9/FfqrAvL/i+eitKbsRZQQXcBHahuWVcqgQ72NajN1J3RBs45FO3WFqyO47mBRqBY= Cancel-Lock: sha1:WZLVtEjY5JPzzb3JSqhPA/GwSoE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: <018d458b-c915-4b2d-8397-65b297e649a2@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15093 On 07.06.2012 20:46, zyng wrote: > Both 32 bits and 64 bits JRE are installed on Windows 7 64 bits > computer. Normally, 64 bits JRE is used. > > Right now, for some reason, we hope that 32 bits JRE is used when What do you mean by "we hope"? Do you /want/ the 32 bit JRE to be used? Or are you /assuming/ it is used? > 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. That depends entirely how the "commercial Java program" uses the JVM. Could be a script, an executable etc. and we have no way of knowing how it determines the JVM to use. Please provide more detail, especially what you expected and maybe also what "commercial Java program" we are talking about. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/