I am having a heck of a time getting my
applet to be able to read its required libraries. I have seen threads here and there on this issue, but have not been able to find straightforward language on what is required. My situation is as follows:
I have an applet that uses the
Java Advanced Imaging API and thus needs to read in classes from jai_codec.jar and jai_core.jar, among others. The Applet itself must be able to load files from the local server and therefore it must (as far as I understand) be archived in a signed .jar file (please correct me if I'm wrong on this). The problem is that the applet cannot find the other .jar files it needs to read from.
Now, I have seen some indication that perhaps these libraries must be included in the 'archive' attribute in the Applet tag. I have not tried this yet, but this solution does not appeal to me since the libraries required by the Applet may be quite numerous. I have tried simply dropping the external .jar file into the same directory as the Applet's .jar file, and also including them in the root directory of the Applet's .jar file, to no avail.
I would like to know if adding these libraries to the 'archive' attribute is the only way (and/or the preferred way) to accomplish what I am trying to do, or if there is some other way to load these libraries so that the Applet can find them.
Thank you,
Justin Ellis
