I just wanted to know if anyone out there downloaded
the beta version of the java  jdk 1.4.
When I invoke the compiler or interpreter, javac or java,
it threads itself, sometimes more than 15 times.

I'm a teacher and I wrote some applets for my students. To be compatible
with most browsers they could use I wrote these applets in Java 1.1.
It works fine on IE of Windows 95, 98, 2000, but not on some versions of
Windows XP which require the JVM download.

I keep getting these error logs on my computer. I am not sure what is
causing them or even what program is causing them. I have an HP computer
running Windows XP. Can anyone tell me what this means?
an unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.

When using the parameters:
 -Xms32m -Xmx200m
What exactly does this do in terms of how much memory is allocated to
the JVM from the system?

I run on a Sparc machine a 64 bits C code that calls a JVM - unfortunately,
all the profilers I know for Unix are compiled in 32 bits (I'm looking for
a memroy leak in a big Java, that could also come from the JNI links).
Any idea for me ?

In 64-bit Java's, is it possible to address arrays with longs?
--
Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.

I've some difficulties to understand how does the JIT compilers work.
Let's say that a JIT compiler is used, is it running with a virtual
machine or not? How the garbage collection is done?
Same question for AOT compilers, how does the GC work since there is

  Does the rt in rt.jar stand for run time?
--Mike Amling

i know about javas 'big integer' for handling of large integers, but
wondered whether it can find square roots of large numbers also?