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Re: Glassfish Platform Support : Windows 64-bit

From: John Clingan <John.Clingan_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:06:56 -0700

On Jun 25, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Anand Vithalani wrote:

> Thanks Guys for reply.
>
> I need concreate information whether Glassfish will work perfectly
> (SUN fully supported) on 64-bit windows ( 2003, 2008), with 64-bit
> JVM.
>

GlassFish v2.1 added support for Windows 2008 32-bit JVM. We have not
tested, nor does Sun formally support, 64-bit JVM.

> SUN confirmation is needed.
>
> Last time we have had lots of Glassfish troubles on 32-bit
> windows-2008, we don't want to take any chance.
>

Was this with versions prior to GlassFish v2.1? If so, we never tested
those versions on Windows 2008.

> regards
> Anand
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:15 AM, NBW <emailnbw_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Comerford, Sean <Sean.Comerford_at_espn3.com
> > wrote:
> I can tell you from experience that we haven’t seen any problems
> running 64 bit Windows Server 2003
>
> But last I checked it doesn’t work with the 64 bit JDK for some
> reason so you just have to use the 32 bit one.
>
> GF does work with the 64 bit JDK. The problem is the installer does
> not. If you want to use it with the 64 bit JDK what you need to do
> is have the 32 bit JRE installed so the installer users that one.
> Then you simply change the Java Home environment variable to point
> to the 64bit JDK install. This setting is in the admin console's
> application server JVM settings.
>
> -NBW
>
>