jre1.5 release 11 - causing problems in applet
I have an applet that is hosted within our intranet that has run fine on my machine up until I upgraded my jre1.5 from release 10 to 11. Now it doesn't seem to cache the applet and takes the full length of time to download, even if it was just viewed. Also it runs very slowly. It's UI responsiveness has slowed from instantaneous to around 10s!
Anyone else had this issue? Should I / can I specify a maximum jre1.5 release in the APPLET tag?
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brad103a] at [2007-11-26 21:13:54]
# 1
Unfortunately no.
Static versioning was disabled with Java version 5. Any JRE IE plugin that is version 5 or greater will always execute applets over any prior JRE plugin version.
It seems though that some version incompatibly problem in your program is causing this unresponsive behavior. Do you have some kind of logging or debugging tool integrated with your application? Can you check to see if there are some exceptions being thrown causing your program to slow to a crawl?
# 2
Thanks for your help. I've resolved it now and it turns out it was my internet proxy that was to blame. I'm sure that Java could have handled it better, as for some reason it wouldn't cache the jars, the progress bar would over-extend (like http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5101978), and the responsiveness was very poor. Now that I've changed my proxy (back to the original I was using), everything is running as it should.
