Re: Write Once Run Anywhere?

[Ming-Ching Tiew]

Steve Cohen wrote:
> 
> I have built an application and an applet using jdk 1.1.6 under linux
> RedHat 5.0.  Both the application and the applet (which use much of the
> same code) compile and work under linux.
> When I copy the class files to a Win95 system, they fail with
> NoClassDefFoundError.
> If, instead, I copy the .java files to the Win95 system and compile them
> there, then again, both the applet and the application run exactly as
> they did under linux.
> 
> Why could this be happening?

If what you claim is true, then this is really worthy of further 
investigation. The problem of Java WORA is usually a lot more subtle 
then this, it is usually something along the line of slight 
differences in behaviour, GUI for example. It shouldn't be as 
gross as what you described.

Ming-Ching