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Short answer: you can't. The browser defines a fixed-sized area in the web page for the Applet. If you need dynamic sizing, your only choice is to have your Applet display a Frame, Window, or Dia...more

The Plug-in reads the policy file and key store only once at startup. If you need to modify either, you need to shutdown and restart the browser.

While technically possible to use the Swing components in any Java 1.1-based browser, realistically is another story. The JAR file of Swing classes is approximately 2 MB, which would be required t...more

In short, get the applet's context and tell it to show a different document: getAppletContext().showDocument(new URL("http://foo.com/whatever/blah.doc")). You can also provide a target f...more

Try telling the applet to call getAppletContext().showDocument("http://foo.com/whatever/blah.doc"). That makes the browser responsible for fetching and saving the document (including pu...more

This is basically the same as talking to any web page. Check out: http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/view.jsp?EID=157 and http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/view.jsp?EID=14163more

The problem is that applets restrict read access to the local computer. This is a security measure meant to protect your computer from attacks such as reading your files and reporting them to some...more

I just installed the Java Plug-in within my browser, and now, System.out.println is no longer sending messages to my browser's Java console. Why?

Yes, the default behaviour for applets (including those that may be RMI clients) is to communicate with an RMI server that is hosted on the same platform from which the applet ...more

    It's pretty straightforward. You can use the java.net.URLConnection and java.net.URL classes to open a standard HTTP connection to the web server. The server then passes this informa...more