Teleidoscope

Tue, Dec 18, 2007

Java 64 bit support

Posted at 11:22 am MST to Technology

Does not exist. It does not work on Windows XP and it does not work on any flavor of Linux I have tried. Seems damned flakey on 32-bit Linux, too. So much for Sun's ambition to provide "run anywhere" development support.

Java-based apps for key enterprise finctions? Not if you want your enterprise to function!

The repeated hangs and crashes are making all of my environments unreliable. At this point, trying to run ANY browser in the Windows locks the whole laptop so hard that I have to use the power button to kill and restart it. (Oddly enough, the mouse cursor still moves, but everything else is dead, includig network connections.)

I think I'm going to save everything I care about from that space, then see if I can get Windows to update. Maybe going to IE 7.0 (ick) will fix the breakage I'm seeing.

It doesn't help that IBM requires an antique version of java... the chances of everything working right are a lot lower. Big software companies need to support modern hardware and software.

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