Calling JAVA methods from JavaScript in IE

[Adinarayana Pabolu]

you can invoke the public methods of your applet from JavaScript from IE4(I.E ship with Liveconnect). This functionality works fine when I use JDK 1.3.x to write the applet. Recently I upgraded to JDK 1.4.x. Now I recompiled the Applet again. Now it is not able to call the public methods of my applet from Javascript. What is the reason for this? I am using Internet Explorer 6.0, SP1. Any help on this would be appreciated.

[Chris Stehno]

I have run into the same problem and the only two solutions I could come up with were to compile it with 1.3 or to use the Java Plugin rather than the old applet tags... the plugin is preferable, as it is easier to updrade.
Hope this helps.

[Maulin Vasavada]

hi all,
just to point a important thing...
as soon as u use OBJECT/EMBED tags instead the conventional APPLET tag you will not be able to invoke public methods of the applet via NAME attribute in the EMBED. this is a Netscape issue. it works fine in IE using ID attribute for the applet's OBJECT element.
so b aware...
regards
maulin.