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You can use use JavaScript to diretly call public methods in the applet or access public variables. JavaScript treats the embedded applet as an object. In the applet tag give the applet a name (f...more

Microsoft provides a VM Uninstaller as part of their 4.0 SDK. See http://www.microsoft.com/Java/sdk/40/pg/tools_misctools_2.htm for usage information.more

You can find this question answered in the Microsoft Knowledge Base at http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q214/8/28.asp. Hint, it isn't JDK 1.2.more

You can have the Java VM initialize itself when the browser starts up by adding the -start_java option to the end of the browser startup command in the startup shortcut/script.

Messages written to standard output (System.out) and standard error (System.err) appear in the Java console of the browser. From Internet Explorer, you can view the console from the View->Java ...more

AWT applets (those that subclass java.applet.Applet) cannot include an AWT MenuBar. Swing applets (those that subclass javax.swing.JApplet) can use the JMenuBar. To display menus in an AWT you wou...more

Applet security restrictions do not let you get this in an untrusted applet via InetAddress.getLocalHost(). However, you can get this address by creating a Socket connection back to the web server...more

Sun provides an HTML Converter tool (http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.2/converter.html) that will setup your web pages to include code that will cause the Java Plug-in to be needed to use the...more

You can place any content you want between the start and end <APPLET> tags. A Java-enabled browser will ignore this content. When Java is disabled, the browser will display the content (othe...more

Depending upon which type of number you wish to treat the parameter as, you would need to call the appropriate conversion routine of the corresponding wrapper class. For instance, to treat a Strin...more

Applets must subclass the java.applet.Applet class (or one of its subclasses like javax.swing.JApplet). If they do not, the browser will not be able to load and start the applet.

While testing applets, you're better off using appletviewer. As far as browsers go, pressing down the SHIFT or CTRL key when you select Refresh/Reload may cause the browser to load the new vesion....more

Applets are created to be embedded within a browser. As such, they have methods that are automatically called by the browser at certain times: init() when first loaded, start() when page loaded/en...more

You can directly access the following properties from an untrusted Java applet with System.getProperty(name): java.version java.vendor java.vendor.url java.class.version os.name os.version os.arc...more

Untrusted applets are restricted to only communicate back to the host that delivered the applet. You cannot open a connection to any other URL besides the one from which the applet came.