Re: Source level
Arne VajhQj wrote:
Nigel Wade wrote:
Andrew Thompson wrote:
Sun has not implemented a Java plugin for 64bit Linux, not even for 1.5 never
mind 1.6. So you can't run applets in 64bit browsers under Linux. There are
workarounds, but none of them are particularly appealing, and you will
probably
find most installations of 64bit Linux cannot run applets.
Does applets need 64 bit ?
A 64bit web browser needs a 64bit plugin. So, yes if your installation is 64bit
your browser is likely to be 64bit and applets would need a 64bit plugin (if
there was one).
The alternative is to install a 32bit browser and a 32bit JVM+plugin and use
that. But that isn't always possible, and certainly not always trivial, on
64bit Linux distros.
There is a project called nspluginwrapper which allows 64bit firefox to utilize
32bit plugins. How the technology works (since the 64bit application cannot
load the 32bit plugin directly) I don't know. It probably starts an external
32bit app which loads the plugin and embeds that app's. display within the
browser window. But that's pure speculation.
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