applet FAQ number 3 , on netbeans , class not found

[jon casari]

My applet works fine if I run it locally, but not if it's served from a web server. What gives?

A symptom of this problem might be a message "applet not initialized" at the bottom status bar of the browser window. Make sure you haven't put any required class files into the WEB-INF directory - web servers will not serve any files out of that directory. Move the class files to a publicly accessible directory - the most convenient would be the directory where the HTML file with the applet tag is in.

The problem is that netbeans always moves the .class files to the /class folder when you build a web application , so what should I do I tried this and some variations of this but it wont work

<APPLET code="a/SwingCapture.class" width=350 height=200></APPLET> applet not found
tried SwingCapture.class , /a/SwingCapture.class
<img src="a/sol.jpg" width="1024" height="1024" alt="sol"/> image ok
[ February 09, 2007: Message edited by: jon casari ]

[Ulf Dittmer]

So the SwingCapture class is inside of a directory called "a" which in uderneath the directory where the HTML file is located? Can you download the class manually through the browser by typing in "http://.../a/SwingCapture.class"?

[jon casari]

yes , I can download it

[Ulf Dittmer]

In that case check the web server access logs to see which files the JVM is actually trying to download. Incidentally, the code attribute does not take a filename like "a/SwingCapture.class", but a qualified class name like "a.SwingCapture" ("a.SwingCapture.class" may also work).