# jws

Micronrng (Micronrng@aol.com)
Tue, 9 Dec 1997 16:32:20 EST

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    From: Micronrng <Micronrng@aol.com>

    Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 16:32:20 EST

    To: hotjava-comments@web2.javasoft.com, hotjava-bugs@web2.javasoft.com,

    Subject: jws

I have found two major problems with jws20.

1) there are no signed applet examples. jws runs totally with security
bypassed. When you hit the real world of applets, you hit the sandbox. I
pulled a signed applet example from the sun web site. Every step of it's
detailed procedure worked. However, there was no step showing how to run it
on the various real world browsers, once signed. Guess what, it doesn't run.

2) JWS tech support? I gave them the url to the signed applet example from
the sun web site. They gave me the run around, telling me since I was using
IE4 they couldn't help me(lets get back to the real world). They told me to
use hot java, which I did. Hot java would not even start, they didn't know
why or how to fix it. It turns out that Hot java assumes the jdk is on drive
c:. Tech support didn't know this. By making a batch file, I figure out how
to set the path to the d drive and make hot java run, although I must admit,
there is some vague reference in the hot java readme file to the sdk_home,
like I'm supposed to know what sdk_home is and how to go about setting it to
something. Well, I stumbled on to that and got it to work.

Now, you say, does the signed applet run. No! It comes up with a dialog on
the first security exception, which I allowed(clicked OK). Next came the
second security exception dialog, I click ok, hot java is totally hung.

It is bad enough it doesn't work, but hanging the browser is the last straw.
It does same thing on wn95 and winnt40. Is it me... nope. Tech support
finally got the signed applet from the sun web site and tried it. It hangs
hot java browser on their machine. They also don't think this can run on IE
or Netscape.

Jim Gamber

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