Jan Peter Hecking wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 11:57:27AM -0400, Daniel Lintjens wrote:
> > Well, I know OCF supports applets, but I haven't got any luck with it
> > though.
> > The ocf routines i have use the javax.comm library to access the com
> > port, and with the current implementation of javax.comm it is not
> > possible to do that in an applet under 1.2. It should be possible with
> > 1.1.7, but no luck on my side...it is a security problem, but applets
> > and security are a big jungle to me.
>
> Why is it that javax.com cannot be used in an applet under 1.2?
ok, get a good grip. You're not going to like this.
Sun apperently knows about this problem, and it will be fixed in the
next release. I'm not accusing anyone, but some voices say sun
dilibretly put the bug in there because at the time jdk1.2 wasn't
finished, and the security model wasn't stable yet. There is no mention
about this anywhere (-the not working under 1.2 applets part-) but after
extensive research I found a newsgroup which is only accesable using a
java program from the usnpages and the people there told me this was a
known bug. Took me like 5 weeks to figure it out, and made my boss very
happy (with Sun.)
> I'm also trying to use OCF in an applet and I always get a weird
> NullPointerException that I can't figure out when I try to use the
> java-plugin for 1.2. It works with 1.2 and 1.1.6 when run as an
yep, sound all to familiar!
> application. It also runs when run as an applet under 1.1.6. But then it
> fails with a SecurityException because I haven't had any luck with
> signing jar's with jdk1.1.6's javakey either.
> (javakey -gk Jan DSA 512 throws a NullPointerException)
same here, the 1.1.x security model is just uncomprihensible
at least to me it is, never got it to work, and never met people who got
it to work eighter.
p.s. I found some other bug in javax.comm 2.0 (=latest version) ANYONE
who knows where to report this ? And don't start with try sun's page,
because I put 2 hours in searching where to report this (since it
doesn't fall under any "class" like jdk1.2, swing, awt, etc...
frustrating" an) and when I finaly got a mail adress it bounced back at
me! Sun isn't that popular here anymore ...
Daniel
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