Re: autodl of JRE 1.5

<ThierryBrunWorkShop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1140117557.643820.81200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

Hi, this reply probably won't actually answer your question, but rather it's to clarify some terminology and concepts to help you express future questions on the topic more clearly.


I am trying to get the java applet i've written to autodl a current
version of the java runtime on a machine that doesn't have it
installed. I have discovered how this is done on an HTML page using
OBJECT (and Embed).

It is not your applet which is downloading the Java runtime. That's impossible, because the user doesn't have Java installed yet, so it cannot run the applet, and so it cannot find out from the applet that it should be downloading something.

Rather what's going on is that you've written some HTML, and the browser is interpreting the HTML, and sees a reference to a plugin which it does not have a reference to, and so the browser downloads the plugin, all before the applet ever enters the picture.



I have tried to trigger the autodl to dl the java runtime, 1.5.0.06.
It works by installing the java runtime, but when the install is
complete the applet is not run. The location where the java logo should

be flashing is just blank.
If I click refresh of the page, I am prompted once again to install the

runtime libraries.
If I REBOOT the machine, once I click on the html page, my applet runs
and everything is fine.


So, my question. Does Java require a REBOOT of the machine upon
install?? I thought this wasn't the case. Why does refreshing the
page cause the installer to launch once again?? Is my html code
incorrect? Please look at the "...cab#version1,5,0,06" part. Is that
the correct way to specify this patch version? my code snippet is
shown below.

This has almost nothing to do with Java, and has almost everything to do with the browser and OS.

Did you try quitting the browser completely and restarting it without rebooting the machine?

- Oliver

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