Revision history

Intermediate Release 2.03, 18/oct/2006

• Solved a memory leak occurring when consecutive Applicet's run as application in a single JVM; the collection of Applicets maintained for the AppletContext.getApplet(String) and AppletContext.getApplets() methods was never cleared. Applicets are now removed from this collection when setActive(false) is invoked, explicitely or implicetely.

Major Public Release 2.02, 4/aug/2004

• Swing version

  Now that Sun's Java 2 Plugin seems to dominate in the Java enabled web browser market, it made sense to introduce a Swing based version of our popular Applicet Framework for Applicets and Applications. Surprise surprise, we called it JApplicet. JApplicet runs only in Java 2 and later environments, Applicet still runs in JDK1.1

  Upgrading your programs from AWT Applicet to Swing JApplicet is much the same as for upgrading from Applet to JApplet: remember the getContentPane() thing. For the rest the API is unchanged.

  To avoid having duplicates for helper classes like Browser and ParameterParser, we introduced an interface be.arci.applet.Framework, that is implemented by both Applicet and JApplicet. As a consequence, method signatures for the named classes and their subclasses have changed, to refer Framework instead of Applicet; remember to update your own subclasses, if any.

  Also, we decided to make I18NDelegate an external class instead of an inner class of Applicet. We do not think this will have any impact on your code.

• New method public void setStatusField(TextField statusfield) in Applicet.Context
• New method getLongIntParameter(Framework applicet, String sName, long lDefaultValue, long lMinValue, long lMaxValue) in ParameterParser
• New methods public void setStream(String key, InputStream stream), public InputStream getStream(String key) and public Iterator getStreamKeys() in JApplicet.Context, to fullfill new JDK1.4 contract for java.applet.AppletContext. These methods were not included in the AWT version Applicet, since that is at JDK1.1 level, where the Iterator class is not present.
• An explicit BorderLayout.CENTER constraint in the usage Dialog, for working around a bug in early MS JVM's

Intermediate Release 1.03, 23/nov/2000

• Removed dependency of be.arci.pub.ParameterParser on be.arci.pub.ColorParameter.
• Class be.arci.applet.FallbackAudioClip documented and made public.
• Added method Applicet.getParentFrame()
• Improved MoReversi example.

Intermediate Release 1.02, 18/sep/2000

• Solved problem with Netscape 4.7 to retrieve compressed image resources from a JAR file over a TCP/IP connection.

Intermediate Release 1.01, 31/may/2000

• Allow explicit ".properties" suffix for parameter files. If suffix is not ".properties", ".properties" is still appended to retrieve the localized parameter file names.

Public Release 1.00, 14/feb/2000

• Production-level testing
• Streamlining functionality.
• Limiting 'as-applet' download size

Limited Release 0.9, 01/sep/1999:

• Added audio support for applications
• Added internationalization support
• Easier resource handling by name instead of by URL
• Solved some glitches regarding Netscape/MS IExplorer differences

Private Release 0.5, 31/may/1999:

• Applicet extends Applet with an AppletStub and an AppletContext for applications.
• Parameter parsing.