Thread: Can't get applet to work on Safari..

Is there an error message in the browser's java console?

I don't know how to access the java console when the page doesn't even load.

Is the plugin installed for that browser?

Test for java plugin
How do I test whether Java is working on my computer?

Yes, java itself works fine. The plug-ins are up to date and everything.

So does the Java console open on your screen when you load a page with an applet in it? If it doesn't you could try starting the Java ControlPanel (on my Ubuntu PC I open a terminal and enter 'ControlPanel' - in exactly that case), going to the 'Advanced' tab, expanding the 'Java console' element and choosing 'Show console'.

If the Java test applet is working and your own project is not, perhaps it's not a Java plugin issue though. What happens if you try to load the class file directly by entering its URL in the Safari URL bar? For example the Java test applet can be downloaded in Firefox by combining the page URL:

How do I test whether Java is working on my computer?

with the codebase in the applet tag (see the page source)

codebase="../../applet"

and the archive name

TestVM2-test.jar

to give the URL of the jar file

http://java.com/applet/TestVM2-test.jar

Firefox attempts to download the file, explaining that it's a 'Java archive' - so it must at least have read a response header by the time the dialog is shown.

Can you verify on your Mac that Safari is downloading the class file? I don't know Mac Web Sharing - is there an equivalent to Apache's access_log which tells you what requests clients have made and what the response codes / content lengths were?

ok, so i opened the page with the java console and this is what it said:

load: class Candle.class not found.
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Candle.class
at sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoader.findClass(Ap plet2ClassLoader.java:252)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.loadClass0(P lugin2ClassLoader.java:250)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.loadClass(Pl ugin2ClassLoader.java:180)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.loadClass(Pl ugin2ClassLoader.java:161)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:2 47)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.loadCode(Plu gin2ClassLoader.java:687)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager.createApplet(Plu gin2Manager.java:3045)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletExecutionR unnable.run(Plugin2Manager.java:1497)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)
Exception: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Candle.class

load: class Candle.class not found.

The browser is looking for the class: class in the package Candle. It is looking for the file: class.class in the Candle folder. Remove the .class from the code= tag so it looks for the class: Candle
code= should refer to the class, not the filename

Are you saying the html should say:

HTML Code:

<applet code = "Candle" width="350" height="200">
</applet>

The name of the applet is "Candle" btw.

What happened when you tried it with only the class name (not the filename)?