I'm interested in understanding how a Java VM (or any VM for that
matter) deals with situations that could cause a segfault or similar
error in C/C++ multithreaded code.  Specifically, I'm wondering if, in
order to avoid segfaults caused by race conditions, a VM must grab

Hi to all,
I need to know how a browser open an applet, or, better, how a browser
invoke the virtual machine; the browser open the JVM through a dll
specified in the windows registry?

I'm trying to install JRE 1.5.0_06 on Windows NT4.
The installation program (offline installation) always fails, with a strange
error message like "a DLL is missing".
Please note: JRE 1.4.2 works fine.

I have a question about running a particular applet within my browser.
If this applet calls System.getProperty("os.name"), the JVM will return
the proper OS. Is there any way to change what value this function
returns? I'd like to return a value that imitates Linux or Mac OS. I'm