Applet Java For Mac

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posted 13 years ago
I have a Mac G5 and am trying to run an applet on any webbrowser. I create the applet in XCode 2.4 and it runs in the sun applet viewer when I do a 'Build and Go,' but importing it to my trial copy of Dreamweaver 8 always results in failure on Safari or Netscape. In Safari I just get an 'X' and in Netscape I get the 'Start: applet not initialized' error. I have looked through all the previous lists here, but can find nothing that helps me. I would like to run a complex application, but right now I can't even get a simple 'Hello World' applet to work. Any suggestions? Thanks so much in advance!
Rancher
posted 13 years ago
Does it work in appletviewer if you start it from the command line? What is your general directory layout, i.e. which files are where?
Greenhorn
Applet Java For Macposted 13 years ago
I haven�t tried to run it from the command line, mostly because I didn�t realize that was an option. I don�t know how to do that. My Xcode project is one folder in my Home folder and the Dreamweaver website is in another folder in the Home folder. I tried putting the jar file and the html file in the Dreamweaver folder and linking to them from there, but I got the same result � they do not work in Safari or Netscape.
Rancher
posted 13 years ago
You can try using appletviewer by typing 'appletviewer <name-of-HTML-file>' on the command line.
How do you reference the jar file in the HTML - can you show us the applet tag?

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Greenhorn
posted 13 years ago
>You can try using appletviewer by typing 'appletviewer <name-of-HTML-file>' on the command line.<
OK, thanks, that works fine. I get the applet for my simple test applet, but I get the �Start: applet not initialized� error with my more complex applet.
>How do you reference the jar file in the HTML - can you show us the applet tag?<
This is the tag in XCode:
<APPLET archive='Applet_Conduit_Fill.jar' code='Applet_Conduit_Fill' width=300 height=150>
Your browser does not support Java, so nothing is displayed.
</APPLET>
But my browsers DO support java, so what does this mean?
Greenhorn
posted 13 years ago
In XCode I changed the applet tag to:
<APPLET archive='Applet_Conduit_Fill.jar' code='Applet_Conduit_Fill' width=550 height=650>
</APPLET>
and made sure the jar, class and html files were all in the same folder, then went to Dreamweaver and did Insert>Media>Applet and selected the class file. Now when I preview in Safari, the applet works as it should, but Modzilla and Netscape both give the exception:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Applet_Condulet_Fill.class
and at the bottom there is the cryptic �Start: applet not initialized� message. Any insights as to why it should work in Safari but not the other browsers?
Is there a way to implement an application on a website without using an applet? For example, a simple box where a user can enter a number and the application will calculate and return an answer?
Thanks in advance.
Rancher
posted 13 years ago
The tag looks good. You could try to specifying the class name by appending '.class' to it, because the Sun Java Tutorial on Applets does it like that. Some browsers/plugins are picky that way. Aside from that, just make sure that wherever you copy the files, the HTML file and the jar file need to be in the same directory.
The 'Your browser does not support Java, so nothing is displayed.' is just there in case the browser has no Java or Java turned off, in which case it would ignore the applet tag and display what's inside it (i.e., that message). It has no bearing on the problem at hand.
Greenhorn
posted 13 years ago
>You could try to specifying the class name by appending '.class' to it,� Aside from that, just make sure that wherever you copy the files, the HTML file and the jar file need to be in the same directory.<
I had to create a new project in Dreamweaver and use the Terminal to create the class file (using javac) and the jar file (using jar cvfM �) and although I can get it to work fine in Safari, I still get the errors in Modzilla. I don�t get it. Other than turning java on in Modzilla, I can find no way to assign a java version, so I have to assume it is using the system version, java 1.6.0. Any insights? Thanks.
Rancher
posted 13 years ago
Which errors are those exactly - there should be a more detailed error message in either system.log or console.log (you can use Console.app to look at those).
Are you really running Java 6 on the Mac? Then I wouldn't be surprised to encounter problems - it's still in development, after all.
[ November 17, 2006: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]
Greenhorn
posted 13 years ago
<Which errors are those exactly>
Here is part of the console log (and yes, I am really running java 1.6 :-):
Tried to create the VM in the Java Applet.plugin.
We detected that one already was created for this browser.
Using existing VM.
**Warning** this VM MAY not have the expected Java Runtime Parameters.
load: class Applet_Conduit_Fill.class not found.
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /GAIA_G5/Users/chris/**JavaProjects/Applets/Applet Conduit Fill/Dreamweaver/Applet_Conduit_Fill/class.class (No such file or directory)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:91)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:54)
at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.connect(FileURLConnection.java:64)
at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream(FileURLConnection.java:128)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(AppletClassLoader.java:261)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(AppletClassLoader.java:39)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(AppletClassLoader.java:143)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClassLoader.java:140)
at sun.plugin.security.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:269)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:294)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(AppletClassLoader.java:117)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:250)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(AppletClassLoader.java:551)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:582)
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer.java:1323)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:511)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:289)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:489)
Rancher
posted 13 years agoThere's the problem:

load: class Applet_Conduit_Fill.class not found.
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /GAIA_G5/Users/chris/**JavaProjects/Applets/Applet Conduit Fill/Dreamweaver/Applet_Conduit_Fill/class.class (No such file or directory)


The class is not called Applet_Conduit_Fill.class, it's called Applet_Conduit_Fill, so here it works the other way around from what I mentioned earlier (the class name should apparently not include the '.class' extension).
Greenhorn
posted 13 years ago
> The class is not called Applet_Conduit_Fill.class, it's called Applet_Conduit_Fill, so here it works the other way around from what I mentioned earlier (the class name should apparently not include the '.class' extension).<
The folder in the path:
/GAIA_G5/Users/chris/Desktop/TestDreamweaver/
contains the following files:
Applet_Conduit_Fill.class
Applet_Conduit_Fill.jar
Applet_Conduit_Fill.java
example1.html
so I don�t understand the error. I discovered some spaces in the path of the last attempt and thought that might have been the problem, but correcting it made no difference. Omitting the .class extension does show the whole class name in the error, but there is still an error somewhere.
Saturday, November 18, 2006 8:48:24 AM US/Pacific
Tried to create the VM in the Java Applet.plugin.
We detected that one already was created for this browser.
Using existing VM.
**Warning** this VM MAY not have the expected Java Runtime Parameters.
load: class Applet_Conduit_Fill not found.
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /GAIA_G5/Users/chris/Desktop/TestDreamweaver/Applet_Conduit_Fill.class (No such file or directory)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:91)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:54)
at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.connect(FileURLConnection.java:64)
at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream(FileURLConnection.java:128)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(AppletClassLoader.java:261)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(AppletClassLoader.java:39)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(AppletClassLoader.java:143)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClassLoader.java:140)
at sun.plugin.security.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:269)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:294)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(AppletClassLoader.java:117)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:250)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(AppletClassLoader.java:551)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:582)
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer.java:1323)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:511)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:289)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:489)
Rancher
posted 13 years ago
Is the Applet_Conduit_Fill class actually in the jar file? I'm not sure if the browser will look at the standalone classes if an archive attribute is present.
The error message is indeed strange - is the Applet_Conduit_Fill.class file readable by the browser, e.g. if you enter its path into the URL field?
Greenhorn
posted 13 years ago
>Is the Applet_Conduit_Fill class actually in the jar file? I'm not sure if the browser will look at the standalone classes if an archive attribute is present.<
Yes, the jar file contains the class, java, and html files.
>The error message is indeed strange - is the Applet_Conduit_Fill.class file readable by the browser, e.g. if you enter its path into the URL field?<
It is readable in Safari, but when I attempt to read it in Modzilla, I get the following error in the console.log:
Saturday, November 18, 2006 4:01:50 PM US/Pacific
Tried to create the VM in the Java Applet.plugin.
We detected that one already was created for this browser.
Using existing VM.
**Warning** this VM MAY not have the expected Java Runtime Parameters.
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Applet_Conduit_Fill (Unsupported major.minor version 50.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:488)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:106)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClassLoader.java:148)
at sun.plugin.security.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:269)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:294)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(AppletClassLoader.java:117)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:250)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(AppletClassLoader.java:546)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:582)
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer.java:1323)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:511)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:289)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:489)
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Rancher
posted 13 years ago

(Unsupported major.minor version 50.0)


This means that the Java code has been compiled with a newer version of Java than the browser plugin can handle. Class files of version 50.0 are created by Java 6, so it seems that Mozilla uses at most the Java 5 plugin. You can check that by entering 'about lugins' in the Mozialla/Firefox URL field.

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Assuming that the code doesn't use Java 6-only features you can compile it by using the -source and -target switches of javac. Then the class files are executable by older JVMs/browser plugins.
Greenhorn
posted 13 years ago
>it seems that Mozilla uses at most the Java 5 plugin. You can check that by entering 'about lugins' in the Mozialla/Firefox URL field.<
My version of Modzilla shows java 1.3.1 for the java Applet plugin enabler. It also gave me the warning that I don�t have the latest version, so I downloaded the latest version and got the same java version.
>Assuming that the code doesn't use Java 6-only features you can compile it by using the -source and -target switches of javac. Then the class files are executable by older JVMs/browser plugins.<
Good theory, and we may be getting closer here, but compiling the java code using:
javac -source 1.2 -target 1.2 Applet_Conduit_Fill.java
results in the following error in Modzilla:
Monday, November 20, 2006 8:25:09 AM US/Pacific
Tried to create the VM in the Java Applet.plugin.
We detected that one already was created for this browser.
Using existing VM.
**Warning** this VM MAY not have the expected Java Runtime Parameters.
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/swing/JFormattedTextField
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:232)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:582)
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer.java:1323)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:511)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:289)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:489)
Rancher
posted 13 years ago
Well, the javadocs for JFormattedTextField say that the class got added in Java 1.4, so you can't reasonably expect to generate classes that are compatible with Java 1.2. Until the JVM your browser uses has a 1.4 JVM (you indicated that it still has a 1.3 JVM), it won't be able to run that code.
Greenhorn
posted 13 years ago
Yes, that certainly makes sense. OK, I think that answers all my questions. Thanks so much for your patience and your careful help. I learned a lot while investigating your answers, and you certainly saved me a lot of time. I appreciate it.
Rancher
posted 13 years ago

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Update: Please see our Java Support in Safari 12 article for the latest information on Java support in Safari on macOS. The option to allow plug-ins described below is no longer supported by Safari.

No matter which web browser you use on your computer, you will need the Java plug-in from Oracle in order to view content that uses Java, such as Java applets. The Safari web browser on Mac from Apple is no exception. Java applets are common on the Internet. It is important, therefore, to know how to enable and disable Java in Safari on Mac if it is your web browser of choice.

First, please be certain the version of Java on your computer is current. Once you have verified Java is installed on your computer, please follow the instructions below to learn how to enable or disable Java in Safari on Mac.

1. Launch the Safari application, and click the Safari file menu. Select Preferences from the drop-down menu.

2. The Preferences dialog will launch in a new window. Click the Security icon.

To enable Internet plug-ins, including Java, to load in Safari, check the Internet Plugins: Allow Plug-ins check box. Unlike Safari on Windows, there is no individual check box for Enable Java for Safari on Mac.

3. When you encounter Java content in Safari, Safari will block the content from loading. You will see a notification in the browser window where the Java content would otherwise load:

4. Click the right-arrow in the notification. A Do you want to trust the website… dialog will display.

In this case, we visited the Java.com web site to load a test Java applet. Since we trust the web site, we clicked the Trust button to allow java.com to use the Java plug-in. When we re-visit the Java content on this web site, the Java content will now display.

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5. You can manage your trusted web sites, and choose degrees of trust, by returning to the Security settings of Safari’s Preferences window. Adjacent to the Internet Plugins: Allow Plug-ins check box, click the Website Settings… button.

A new dialog will launch. The dialog displays all of the Internet plug-ins currently installed. To manage the web sites you have trusted to use the Java plug-in, click Java in the left navigation pane. The list of web sites you have already trusted will display.

Use the pull-down menu adjacent to the web site in the list to choose a level of trust you want to extend to this site. You may choose from Ask, Block, Allow or Allow Always (or Run In Unsafe Mode). You may delete a web site from this list by highlighting it with your mouse, and clicking the minus button at the bottom of the list.

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