3DzzD - Applet Boot V2 updated

[CommanderKeith]

It seems like it loads some more things after the start of the applet:

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LineOfSightApplet: contructor begin network: Cache entry not found [url: http://keithphw.freehostia.com/LineOfSightApplet/test/LineOfSightApplet$1.class, version: null] network: Connecting http://keithphw.freehostia.com/LineOfSightApplet/test/LineOfSightApplet$1.class with proxy=DIRECT network: Connecting http://keithphw.freehostia.com:80/ with proxy=DIRECT . . .

Uh huh! Thanks  I never knew about setting the trace level on the console. Well that explains the 5 second gap - the URLClassLoader is downloading the classes it needs to do the run method. Pity there's no way to load them all before hand without manually doing 'loadClass(classNameString)' for each class. Hm, the time taken for the URLClassLoader to download each little class separately must be pretty inefficient.

I have not been able to use v2 of the boot, because I can't access resources as I used to.

1	Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(resource)

dosen't find the stuff from "BOOTJARS". The console just freezes, but I think that is the problem. I guess they are only available from another thread/classloader. Not sure if I made some mistake somewhere along the line. Suggestions are welcome. I guess it might be time for me to learn about classloaders...

Maybe try accessing them directly from the URLClassLoader which loads the rest of your app?
It's declared in this line:

1	ucl = ((URLClassLoader) Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()).newInstance(urlJars);

Then call

1	ucl.getResourceAsStream(resource);

[DzzD]

I have only got problem on ressource when I run Applet locally (AccesControlException because the protocole is file) in other case (when online) it strangely works well...

Plz if you make significant change/improvment post it somewhere, maybe as this code is pretty short & simple we could use Jojoh Wiki and make modification on it, Wiki is nice as it enable history & discussion. Also I propose to put the BootClassLoader as an inner class so the whole code will be only one file (usually not very clean to do that but in this case it make sens).

A target I think good to keep in minds for the loader are : be generic & compatible with the lowest java version possible, inded it is also important that it become robust & stable (must never crash) as an applet crashing is not that bad if the user is well informed.

finally the ultimate goal would be to have a very generic "shell/container" for applet enabling better user experience on applet start aswell as applet crash
 

[CommanderKeith]

For sure. I haven't changed much, just the invalidate/validate thing I mentioned already.
There are 3 problems which I'd like to look into.
How to load all the classes before the main application starts - currently they're only downloaded on-the-fly as needed.
How to avoid having to re-download the jars every time the applet is reloaded.
Getting rid of the coffee cup animation at the very start

Thanks for the help