From owner-freebsd-java Mon Feb 11 21:52:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from orca.seaple.icc.ne.jp (orca.seaple.icc.ne.jp [210.170.8.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ECC037B400 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:52:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (cr1-199-037.seaple.icc.ne.jp [202.215.199.37]) by orca.seaple.icc.ne.jp (8.9.3/3.7W-000828) id OAA22602; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:47:17 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200202120547.OAA22602@orca.seaple.icc.ne.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" From: Michael Westbay To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Java for FreeBSD Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:48:10 +0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20020211142834.A81586@sr.se> <20020212155415.A64695@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <20020212155415.A64695@gurney.reilly.home> Cc: "Andrew Reilly" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Reilly-san, > I'm a little disappointed that it didn't actually solve the > problem that I wanted solved: Java in a native web browser.=20 Applets do work in Konqueror (KDE) on FreeBSD with the native JDK. The o= nly=20 problem is that LiveScript (JavaScript) control over an applet doesn't wo= rk=20 in Konqueror and some applets appear outside of the browser frame. > Can the j2ee sdk (jdk13) be used to run applets, even in > stand-alone mode? I want to do GUIs, rather than server-side > database applications. I would recommend creating an application (as opposed to applet) and=20 deploying with WebStart. That works fine on Netscape 4.7x, Mozilla, and=20 Konqueror (although I recall having to tweak some things to get it to fin= d=20 the native JRE). You get the advantages of an application (which could t= alk=20 to a web service if you so chose) with the deployability of an applet. --=20 Michael Westbay Work: Beacon-IT http://www.beacon-it.co.jp/ Home: http://www.seaple.icc.ne.jp/~westbay Commentary: http://www.japanesebaseball.com/forum/ Due to severe bugs in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook users may no be able to read beyond this point... begin =20 Your mail client is begin-bug free. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message