All,
I need to setup Glassfish on a 64-bit Windows installation. We would like to take advantage of a 64-bit applications ability to utilize extremely large amounts of memory. I haven't been able to find 64-bit specific documentation, and the installer doesn't work with a 64-bit JVM. It just states it can't find the JVM, and I assume this is because native code in the installer tests JVM dlls or something along those lines, and probably fails when trying to load one as I assume the installer itself is 32-bit.
Too, we are currently using the enterprise profile and the NSAPI, which comes from Firefox. Well, Firefox doesn't have a 64-bit Windows installation, so it seems we may have to locate the NSAPI sources and build those libraries with a 64-bit compiler, but we would first like to just Glassfish running on a 64-bit JVM period. We are trying to use the Sun Java System version of Glassfish2 update 2.
We have installed the server with a 32-bit JVM, and then configured it to run with a 64-bit JVM, but this seems to hang when we try to run it. Is GF able to run with a 64-bit JVM? Has anyone been able to make this happen? I envision this being something many would want to do based on memory concerns, and Solaris has been 64-bit for years, so I'm assuming, though not saying my assumptions aren't wrong, that it should work, but I figure you all would be the definitive source. Is clustering the only way around 32-bit memory usage? At this stage it seems it would be simpler if we could just run the server in a 64-bit JVM.
Any ideas, documentation pointers, or any other help are greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Wade
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