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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Knudson)
Tue Jan 16 16:16:59 1996
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 11:58:56 MST
From: "Erik Knudson" <eknudson@vnet.IBM.COM>
To: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
I've run into a problem that has me thinking...(dangerous, I know)
We burned a CD of our html/java tree (currently using Windows95, but
I believe the problem exists on other platforms as well).
The html sources have codebase specified for EVERY applet that is loaded.
We intentionaly have no classpath set for neither will the user.
The codebase is obviously working somewhat because most of the applets
work to some extent. However, many do not work "fully". One applet
for example uses images and double clicking with showDocument(). The
images are fine but the showDocument isn't going anywhere. Also, no
sound applets are working. Now, once I add the classpath to autoexec
to point to the CDrom classes directory, everything works fine. How
can this be? The classpath isn't telling any program anything that
codebase isn't. What's more, over the internet there will be no classpath
variables, like at Gamelan, how do they do it? Don't we lose the platform
independence with needing specific environment variables?
Lastly, can't you link in the "Java run time" so the user won't need
anything more than Netscape,html,classes?
Thanks for any clarification you can provide, Erik.
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