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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lugb.latrobe.edu.au!sheoak.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au!ironbark!bscott From: bscott@ironbark.ucnv.edu.au (Brian Scott) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Netscape and Java Date: 7 Jun 1996 04:32:02 GMT Organization: Dept Computing, UCNV, Bendigo, Australia Lines: 30 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4p8bc2$fbv@sheoak.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au Hello, I suspect that this question has already been asked but... I've just downloaded netscape 3.0b4 (BSDI version) and have tried to look at some examples of applets that come with the JDK (taken from the solaris version of the JDK). After considerable stuffing about, I now have it to a point where I get a status message: 'Applet can't start: applet not initialized' From the time taken to load the page, I would say that it is correctly loading the .class file. The problem seems to be in the interpretation. To get to this point, I have had to include the classes.zip file from the JDK. This seems unusual to me since I would expect netscape to be stand alone. The moz3_0.zip file appears to have a wide range of classes in it that I would expect to be all I ne My questions: 1) is netscape 3.0b4 a crock that doesn't run applets? If so what version does? How do you get it? 2) is there a possible memory or other resource problem on my machine? I have an 8Mb machine. The resident size of netscape seems to be about 2-3mb. There's tons of empty swap space. 3) Is there a requirement for a particular version of FreeBSD? I'm running 2.1R (installed from the CD). 4) Is this something particular about the international version of netscape? (we dont want those ruskies (etc) executing our java applets!) 5) Is there a different browser that will run java on FreeBSD? I will also want to run javac so it must be a reasonably capable JVM. Actually, am I wasting my time because someone has already ported the JDK to FreeBSD? Thanks for any help Brian Scott