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Re: Glassfish Platform Support : Windows 64-bit

From: Anand Vithalani <anand.vithalani_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:32:15 -0700

Thanks John for reply.

 Is GlassFish v2.1 is supported on *"64-bit Windows-2003"* with 32-bit
JVM .


Regards
Anand


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM, John Clingan <John.Clingan_at_sun.com> wrote:

>
> 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:
>
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>>
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Comerford, Sean <
>> Sean.Comerford_at_espn3.com> wrote:
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>>> 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
>>
>>
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