Re: applets in non-plugin IE

From: Nathan Zumwalt (nathanz_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: 30 Dec 2003 11:00:02 -0800

The Microsoft VM was put out in the pre-Java 2 days, which means that
it doesn't support Swing (and some other esoteric features). If
you're using Swing, then you don't have much hope getting your applet
to run without the Java plugin.

You could always use Webstart instead of the applet :)

-Nathan

zzantozz@go.com (Ryan Stewart) wrote in message news:<a12726d3.0312291119.45c8124f@posting.google.com>...
> bendimock@yahoo.com (BenDimock) wrote in message news:<7971f5ed.0312281256.634cf4db@posting.google.com>...
> > I have an applet that loads beatifully on clients that have the java
> > plugin installed. on machines that just run the microsoft vm, it
> > doesn't load and the error message is "ClassNotFoundException". Now
> > these microsft vm machines can load other applets - in particular I
> > was able to load a simple scribble applet. So I'm wondering why my
> > applet doesn't load and the scribble applet does. I even took the
> > scribble applet code, rebuit it w/ jBuilder , put it on my webserver
> > (iPlanet) and COULDN'T load it from a microsft vm machine. what's
> > going on? I thought maybe the microsoft vm only loads classes built
> > with old jdk's so I downloaded 1.1.8 and rebuilt my applet - but still
> > no luck. any ideas?
>
> 1. Find out what class it cannot find.
> 2. See if the MS VM supplies that class.

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