Dear colleagues, I am facing a number of problems, the least of which is the random way I can communicate with this list (I am getting messages out of order and see mine after a week or so!). Hence I packed a number of questions in this message: 1) I am implementing Applet to Servlet exchange of serialised objects. I cannot seem to pass the object or even load the servlet with NScape. Works fine with IE 5.0, I get no reaction with NS 4.06 - 4.5, although I apply the hack suggested by Hunter in his book. I am posting on the applet side and I implement the doPost() or service() on the servlet side. No reaction whatsoever. Same story without the hack. Any ideas? 2) On an intranet, the request.getServerName() on the JWS 1.x returns the IP address instead of the machine name! I need the machine name, as I am passing it along to a proprietary database connection. I circumvented this with a creation of an InetAddress and reading getHostName() which returns correctly. However, it takes an awful lot of time, probably querying the non-existing DNS service. I have found no documented property that could give my servlet access to the machine name directly, e.g. from System.Properties. I am running this on NT. Any ideas? 3) Last but not least: I have made five different succesful deployment efforts of JWS with a set of JNI accessing servlets on NT machines. I now need to deploy a version on a portable running '98. I try the tried-and-proven methodology of putting the JNI-accessing servlets in a \classes directory and putting the DLLs I need in JWS's \lib and/or \bin, Windows\system, Windows\System32 etc. Whatever I tried, there is NO way I can make the '98 machine see my DLLs. Is there some environment variable I need to set so that I will stop seeing the ugly 'no such&such in shared library path'. Which is the 'shared library path' that '98 are using? I've put the DLLs in almost all the directories included in the path variable, to no avail. 4) I am constructing a dynamic HTML page from a servlet according to parameters passed with GET. The page contains an applet, which in turn calls upon other servlets. What is the correct way to set the applet's codebase? I thought it would be as if it were static HTML, that is, that the browser would look again from public_html and below to interpret the page and fetch the applet. It doesn't seem to be so, as my browser complains that the applet is not found. (Cut & paste from the returned source to a static test page, proves that the applet is there and functioning). Any ideas? Thanks a million for any answers. As the list comes to me in a peculiar way (my sysadm swears it's not our fault) I would appreciate it if you could cc: to my account. Apologies for cramming two weeks' questions in one message:-) Kostas ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
