Site crashes on Empty Applet..????

From: Phil Powell (soazine_at_erols.com)
Date: 02/03/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 02:08:29 -0500

URL: http://valsignalandet.com

Class located at: http://valsignalandet.com/class/ParseNews.class

Some background information: A week or so ago my website started to crash
constantly and load slowly for others, which I traced it to be the
customized applet I built a year ago that scrolls news items in an applet
panel. I tried debugging techniques to the point of stripping out every
ounce of code except for now the applet shell itself, and as you can see,
the behavior is consistent: it takes folks 10 sec to 5 minutes to load the
page if the class loads at all.

You will never believe this if I told you, so I am deliberately going to
leave the class as is on the system for you to see for yourself!

Here is the entire code to ParseNews.class source code (.java):

import java.applet.*;

/**
* @author Phil Powell
*
* ParseNews will receive a Phil-homegrown XML-like script from a PHP file,
parse through it,
* and will display each news item within the applet. The "View News" button,
upon being
* pressed, will perform an AppletContext showDocument action to go to the
URL formed by the
* passed ID per Vector iteration. News items will continually scroll from
bottom to top and
* then revert back to the first one
*
* Created 2/1/2003
*/

public class ParseNews extends Applet {

public void init() {}

}

And yes.. on IE 6.0 and Netscape 7.1... it's locked, tight as a drum... does
not load for 5 minutes on either browser (of course, it caches and loads
normal time afterward)..

Dude, ALL browsers AND the entire Java Console COMBINED lock up and freeze
on an empty applet!!!

Phil