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From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>
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Subject: Re : appletviewer support in the FreeBSD java support.
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>>Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> 
>> I'm looking at the java activation code in linux for applets and its
>>using
>> this as its activation:
>> 
>> if (strncmp (bprm->buf, "<!--applet", 10))
>> 
>> know how its run, etc?
>> 
>> (Just finishing off the FreeBSD java support)
>> 
>> Cya.
>> 
>> Adrian.
>
>What makes applets interesting is that they don't necessarily work
>without the HTML page they're in. All Appletviewers are executed by
>'running' the HTML file. You can't actually do "appletviewer foo.class"
>- you have to do "appletviewer.html". (The above looks like a really bad
>kludge)
>
>Which is why running applets is really best left to the appletviewer.

Any other comments on how I should go about "running applets"?
All its doing is running it with the security manager class.

Have fun,

Adrian.