im not sure where to get help on this one but here goes...perhaps someone
here has had this problem:
i am developing swing applets on a freebsd machine running tomcat 3.1. i
write two hello world type applets that used swing. on my client machine
(redhat 7, netscape 4.75) i installed the java plugin 1.3 so that i could
view these applets in netscape. so the plugin was installed and i tested it
by hitting some sample applets found in the Java Tutorial (Applet trail - on
http://java.sun.com)...everything works. so i decide to build my webapp and
deploy it. i do this with no errors or warnings. so far so good. then i
decide to test out my applets (which by the way are called by using
<jsp:plugin></jsp:plugin>).
Applet 1: HelloSwingApplet - runs fine and all works !!!
Applet 2: HeadingApplet - does not work, down in the status bar i get the
following message: "Start: applet not initialized" and the applet area on
the page shows the text "Loading Java Applet ... ".
so i check and double and triple check my applet 2 code. everything is fine.
i try copying the HelloSwingApplet code (with class name changed of course)
to HeadingApplet and still the one works but the other does not. the two
are, save the class and file name, identical.
....GRRRRRRRR.....
then it gets really wierd...i aska friend with a windows machine to hit the
pages to see if i get any more information on the problem. he cannot get
either applet to work. i scream. then i go back to my desk and try both on
my machine again, only one works. so i search sun's site, the tomcat
mailing list archive, and start looking at newsgroups....i do not find
anything so i just restart tomcat and netscape and try again on my
machine....this time NEITHER WORKS!!! ack! nothing changed in the
code....just a restart of the server!
this is driving me crazy. i will continue to try and dig up info on this
but was hoping that someone else on this list knew what was going on.
thanks in advance.
bleh,
david
