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FrontPage How To

Volume 1 - Issue 3 - October 2002
(Updated March 2003)

Setting up the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in Windows
By David Pfeiffer of FrontLook.com

While not exactly a FrontPage How-To tip, this topic is important to any web developer using Java Applets on their web pages.

Background
Due to the litigation with Sun Microsystems, Microsoft has begun the gradual removal of the Microsoft Virtual Machine (its version of the Java Virtual Machine) from its web site and all service packs. This means that the only place to get the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is the Sun web site*. Some of our customers have reported that their Java Virtual machine has stopped working after installing various Services Packs. The "JVM" is now called the "Java Plug-in".

Java is Still Popular and well Supported
Even with the gradual removal of the Java Virtual Machine from the Microsoft operating systems, Java remains popular and well supported. The Java Plug-in is much like the Flash plug-in; first time you encounter a web site that needs it, the user downloads and installs it and all Java applets operate normally after that. Dell Computer and other major computer manufactures are installing the Java Plug-in as part of their standard releases. Also the Java Plug-in is freely available on the web from the Sun web site. Please see the following Statistics on Java support in the browser.

If your Java applets stop working, please go to the Sun Java download site to download the Sun Java Virtual Machine.

Click here for more information from Microsoft on this subject.

Please see the following Statistics on Java support in the browser.

Informing your Windows Viewers
We recommend that you place a link on your pages that use Java Applets that help the user to locate the Java Virtual machine (see below).

Click here to get the Java Plug-in

or

Effects on this page require the Java Plug-in.

or

Java -- Get it now
Click here for permission to use the above logo from Sun

We also recommend that you place the following HTML in the "Non-Java Browser String/HTML" text box on the Applet panel of your Java Effects SE and LE applets.

 

<a target="_blank" href="http://java.sun.com/getjava/">
Click here to get Java Plug-in</a>

FrontLook Products that use Java Virtual Machine
The following FrontLook Products require the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Keep in mind that Java applets require the Java Virtual Machine, but JavaScript/DHTML is part of the browser and does not require the JVM.
 

FrontLook Product

Technology Used

 JVM Required

Comment
Java Effects Java Applets Yes Requires the Java Virtual Machine
Page Effects DHTML/JavaScript No If a sound used, JVM used to play it***
Component Effects DHTML/JavaScript No If a sound used, JVM used to play it***
***If JVM not available, sound will not play, no page error.

If you have any questions about these issues, please don't hesitate to email us.
 

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