Re: Mac driving me crazy

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:18:23 GMT
Message-ID:
<jUDOg.5428$KA6.1236@clgrps12>
"Redbeard" <tom.cowdery@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:1158350506.477976.234050@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

I wrote an applet that I need to be able to run on an older iMac which
has Java 1.3.1 installed. Just to be safe, I compiled it to 1.2 specs
(-source 1.2 -target 1.2). It runs fine on my Windows box, it runs
fine on my brothers newer Mac (Java v1.4 - I think). But I keep
getting a noSuchMethodError error on the old iMac.

The trace stack only shows three items:
- a call to line 19 of the init method of my applet
- a call to sun.applet.AppletPanel.run()
- a call to java.lang.Thread.run()

Line 19 contains a call to an instance method for an object whose class
I also wrote. If I'm reading the stack correctly, that is the method
that the JRE cannot find - not some method that would be part of any
Java Foundation Classes. So differences in Java versions cannot
explain why the method cannot be found. If it really isn't there, the
applet shouldnt work for any version, but it does, so the method IS
there.


    Can you post the stacktrace, and your init method, marking which line is
line 19?

    - Oliver

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