Terry Norton wrote:
> A bit more info.
>
> I'm not totally without Java functionality apparently.
>
> I saw someone using Opera having difficulity with java menu selections
> not working, so I visited the site he was having trouble with:
>
> http://www.dacd.de/
>
> The java menus on the left work fine for me.
>
> Yet, if I go to:
>
> http://www.usfunds.com/
>
> The simple java ticker across the top is gray (not working) with the
> following text in it:
>
> Opening http://www.usfunds.com/java/omniscroller2.class
> Connecting http://www.usfunds.com/java/omniscroller2.class with no proxy
>
>
> And here's what the java console shows:
>
> Java(TM) Plug-in: Version 1.3.0_01
> Using JRE version 1.3.0 Classic VM
> User home directory = I:\JAVA13\jre
> ----------------------------------------------------
> java.lang.ClassFormatError: Omniscroller2 (Illegal constant pool index)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:496)
> at
> java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:117)
> at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClassLoader.java:146)
> at
> sun.plugin.security.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:222)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:325)
> at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(AppletClassLoader.java:112)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:257)
> at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(AppletClassLoader.java:370)
> at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:583)
> at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer.java:1183)
> at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:519)
> at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:297)
> at
> sun.plugin.navig.os2.Os2AppletViewer.maf_run(Os2AppletViewer.java:128)
> at sun.plugin.navig.os2.Os2AppletViewer.run(Os2AppletViewer.java:124)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:498)
>
>
>
> Does this mean anything to some knowledgeable person, as to why java13
> works on some menus, but for the majority of what I need, it doesn't?
>
Yes, it means that your Java setup is fine. The problem appears to be
with the class data on their website. Either it's corrupt, or (and much
more likely) they've put the class files through an obsfucator, which
has (apparently) made it incompatible with Java 1.3.
Brad BARCLAY
