JADE enables you to upgrade 32-bit presentation (thin) client binaries to 64‑bit binaries when the client is using a 64‑bit operating system. In addition, you can control the specific architecture of the binaries downloaded to a specific presentation client.
Visual C++ runtimes are always upgraded (that is, the x64 version is installed) as part of the upgrade process.
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When the UpgradeRuntimeTo64bit parameter is set to true, presentation clients that are running a 32‑bit version of jade.exe on a 64‑bit operating system cause a download and installation of 64‑bit binaries to that client (with the exceptions described later in this section). The default value of false indicates that 32‑bit version presentation clients continue to download 32‑bit binaries when required. Presentation clients that are running a 32‑bit version of jade.exe on a 32‑bit operating system continue to download 32‑bit binaries when required.
If the client is not running a JADE version that is using Visual Studio 2005 runtime libraries, the JADE thin client download will not revert to a version that uses Visual Studio 2005 runtime libraries.
The UpgradeRuntimeTo64bit parameter applies only after the next thin client download has occurred, because any currently deployed jade.exe currently does not communicate the operating system type to the application server. To get 32‑bit clients to upgrade to 64‑bit binaries therefore requires two download and install processes: one to upgrade the jade.exe so that it will identify the operating system type to the application server, and the second to upgrade from 32‑bit to 64‑bit binaries.