Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Knute Johnson Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Applet can't detect 64-bit JRE Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:18:05 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <7NOdnY4GqoJGENHTnZ2dnUVZ_judnZ2d@westnet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:18:09 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="mz/LDSJwiWnk3Jnnqg7x+Q"; logging-data="2146"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18tIDLjQ7sMN9WLq6Gwh3Zq" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:fdXilb9FHJpckLO87yznMIokvXk= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7204 On 8/17/2011 10:21 PM, Qu0ll wrote: > I stand corrected - it appears that only Java Web Start *applications* > work with this combination, all other true applets result in an attempt > to download and install a 32-bit JRE or complain of missing plug-ins. > > Why should there be any difference??? I think it is because the Applet runs in the browser plugin and JWS runs the installed JVM. -- Knute Johnson