[mapserver-users] JSObject in applet

Thu May 31 12:59:05 EDT 2001

List,

Has anyone tried running a mapplet'd application on Netscape 6.01?  I tried 
and the applet can't seem to get past the init() stage and just hangs.

..Tom

>From: kenboss <kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us>
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>Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] JSObject in applet
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>And just to save you the half hour I spent looking for it, it's at
>http://www.microsoft.com/java/vm/dl_vm40.htm.
>
>(It might not be that hard to find if you're familiar with the MS website, 
>but
>searches for Java Virtual Machine or JVM turn up nothing useful. Funny, but 
>on
>their website the Java Virtual Machine is known as the Microsoft Virtual
>Machine, and JVM = Microsoft VM.  Sheesh.)
>
>--Ken
>
> > IE 5 as shipped has a brain-dead JRE. You can download a newer version 
>from
>Microsoft
> > that works with LiveConnect just fine.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > Stephen Lime
> > Internet Applications Analyst
> >
> > Minnesota DNR
> > 500 Lafayette Road
> > St. Paul, MN 55155
> > 651-297-2937
> >
> > >>> Speh Sylvain <sylvain.speh at CLERMONT.cemagref.fr> 05/31/01 03:04AM 
> >>>
> > Hi,
> >
> > 1)
> > I sent a mail the 19th of April, because we couldn't run straightly the
> > fifth example on our IE5/Apache system (IE5 doesn't cope with the 
>Netscape
> > libraries too ? ;-)) ). The JSObject is effectively provided with 
>Netscape
> > in it's java40.jar ( 1848k or so ) file.
> > It's also in the jdk, in the jaws.jar file, but I had problems with the 
>jdk
> > 1.3 release of it.
> >
> > 2)
> > I've heard (I don't use, so I'm not sure of that) that ArcView could
> > generate some mapfile ( with UNIX line separators and slashes ;-() ),
> > javascript and Java classes and files. I've some such files, so can I 
>tell
> > you that, if you'll use them, you'll have to cope with the
> > netscape.javascript package with Java, or with the java40 jarfile.
> >
> > For my own, I gave up a fortnight ago, but I will have to make it run as
> > soon as possible.
> >
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Michael Hearne [mailto:Michael.Hearne at noaa.gov]
> > Envoyé : mercredi 30 mai 2001 19:45
> > À : mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > Objet : [mapserver-users] JSObject in applet
> >
> >
> > I've just been testing a MapServer app, using Steve's mapimage applet,
> > on some older browsers we have, and ran into this error on Internet
> > Explorer 3.0:
> >
> > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: netscape.javascript.JSObject
> >
> > I can guess _why_ it doesn't work [the "netscape" part might have
> > something to do with it :)], but I'm curious if there is a workaround
> > for older versions of IE, like including the JSObject as a jar file that
> > the user downloads or something?  (That would probably be a really
> > horrendous solution, particularly for users w/ modem, but it's all I
> > could think of.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike Hearne
> > --
> > Michael G. Hearne     	  	email: Michael.Hearne at noaa.gov
> > Coastal Remote Sensing  		phone: 843 740-1281
> > TPMC/NOAA Coastal Services Center	fax:   843 740-1312
> > 2234 S. Hobson Ave.,    Charleston, SC 29407
> >
> >
> >
>

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