[JDEV] Errors while starting the applet

[Francesco Bacchelli]

Hello Everybody,

I downloaded the JabberApplet today and had a few problems, greater and 
lesser ones, and I was hoping I could find someone willing to help this 
newbie.

Problem 1 (lesser): the applet class is not seen if it is JARed. I 
created a /jabber folder under the root of my apache web server, and put 
there a simple html file which, besides the usual HTML, HEAD and BODY 
tags had only the applt call, as reported on the jabberstudio web site, 
i.e.
<APPLET ARCHIVE="JabberApplet.jar" 
CODE="org/jabber/applet/JabberApplet.class" HEIGHT=200 WIDTH=200 
VIEWASTEXT>
<param name="xmlhostname" value="/jabber.myserver.org/">
</APPLET>

So I put the JabberApplet.jar into the same folder of the html file and 
opened the html from a browser (that is Mozilla 1.3).
The result from the JVM was:  
load: class org.jabber.applet.JabberApplet not found.
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: File 
not found: http://mymachine/jabber/org/jabber/applet/JabberApplet.class


If I just unzip the .jar file the applet loads, bu then we fall into the 
2nd problem.

Problem 2 (greater): there must be some kind of policy settings to 
apply, but frankly I couldn't find them anywhere. The message, once the 
applet has loaded, is:

java.security.AccessControlException: access denied 
(java.lang.RuntimePermission modifyThreadGroup)
    at 
java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:272)
    at 
java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:399)
    at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:545)
    at sun.applet.AppletSecurity.checkAccess(AppletSecurity.java:139)
    at java.lang.ThreadGroup.checkAccess(ThreadGroup.java:279)
    at java.lang.Thread.init(Thread.java:265)
    at java.lang.Thread.<init>(Thread.java:330)
    at org.jabber.applet.TestConnect.<init>(TestConnect.java:59)
    at org.jabber.applet.JabberApplet.init(JabberApplet.java:502)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:344)
    at 
sun.plugin.navig.motif.MotifAppletViewer.maf_run(MotifAppletViewer.java:131)
    at 
sun.plugin.navig.motif.MotifAppletViewer.run(MotifAppletViewer.java:127)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)

and I can't seem to be going anywhere else.

Hope somebody can help

thanks in advance

bye

Francesco Bacchelli