Java SE (Java Platform, Standard Edition)

Hi all,

I am working on a 64-bits machine with the Linux system and I want to use the Java Web Start technology to deal with 'jnlp' files.

I first tried to download JDKs. Like said in the download page, JWS is not included in the 64-bits version, but only in the 32-bits version. Then off-course using the latter make JWS fail. Notice that the 'jnlp' file used to test the installation is not responsible of the error, because it could start on another 32-bits machine. The error message is given in [1], something to do with the JRE upgrade. Probably not the right error message, since I have installed a recent version (jdk-1_5_0_08).

My question are :
- Is the JWS 32-bits version also dedicated for 64-bits machine ?
- If so, why do I get an error (see [1]) ?
- If not, do you know a way to get JWS on such a machine ?

I will greatly appreciate any help / comments on that problem.
Regards

[1] The application has requested a version of the JRE that is currently not locally installed. Java Web Start was unable to automatically download and install the requested version. This JRE must be installed manually.

Error Code 23 (23 Unsupported JRE version) returned from server when accessing resource: (http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se, 1.4.0+)

Edit :
I forgot to mention that I can start JWS without arguments which gives me the JWS window (normal), but it fails with any 'jnlp' file as first argument, so that's why I am not completely sure that using the 32-bits version is crazy...

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Denethor