Hi all,
First off, let me just say that I purchased a copy of Head First
Java (not the only Head First book I picked up in a recent shopping extravaganza!).
IGNORE THIS BECAUSE THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED
//I started reading the book from the very beginning in an endeavour to get up and running with the Java programming language. It said somewhere in the book that version
1.5 or later of the Java 2 Standard Edition SDK had to be downloaded for getting down to using the code (and generating self-made code of course..) given in the book. I tried my best to locate the same, but could only manage to download the
Java 2 SDK, SE v1.4.2_11 from the Sun website for Java (I'm not sure whether this is a typo in the book or I'm doing something seriously wrong). Could someone lead me to the right place to get v1.5 or later? I'm highly confused by the sheer number of releases the developers of Java have put out (you know, the j2ses, the j2res, the j2ees etc.) .
// That is only part of a larger problem. My browser(s) [IE 7 and Mozilla Firefox] used to run java
applets fine until made this installation. Now, whenever an applet is present in any web page on the internet, I get a red X with a grey background in its place.
Strangely enough, I am able to view the
test applet provided by Sun at
http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml The following Java components are installed in my system :
J2SE Development Kit 5.0 Update 6
J2SE Runtime Envrionment 5.0 Update 6
Java Web Start
I tinkered around with the Envrionment Variables (Under Control Panel > System > Advanced) after making the aformentioned installations. Could this be a reason why the applets are failing to load? I followed the installation instructions to set the PATH variable though.
Also, I don't have a Java Web Start icon on my desktop or in the system tray. Does this mean that it hasn't installed or initialized? And could this be yet another reason as to why the applets aren't loading?
My Java folder is C:\Program Files\Java on my computer
Could someone please tell me how to get the applets loading again? Is there anything which needs to be installed in addition? I am prepared to start on a clean state and reinstall everything if necessary...
Thanks a bunch.
PS : A thousand apologies if this is in the wrong forum. I'd like to think that I'm an amateur at this whole thing, so I guessed this would be the right place to put this issue up.
[ May 22, 2006: Message edited by: Sridhar Venkataraman ]
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