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64 bit java and 32 bit java side by side on same machine

 
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Is there any problem with installing both 32 bit sun (oracle) java and 64 bit sun java on the same machine with the different default installation directories?

I have a new 64 bit notebook and I have a groovy program that used to work on the 32 bit windows 7 and it does not work now on windows 8 64 bit with 64 bit java. I'd like to install 32 bit java on the same machine and see if that fixes the problem but I don't want to muck up the existing 64 bit java.

"Hello World" from groovy seems to work fine so this is a mystery.

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There is no difference between 64 bit and 32 bit class files.

So does that help?
 
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I'm worried about native files like jvm.dll. I'm guess there is no problem but I'd like to hear from someone who has tried it.
 
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I have a bunch of JDKs on my machine, both 32bits and 64bits. No problem so far.
 
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i so also.
 
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