I'm trying to work out how to do some things with APPLET's and am
not finding good demo's nor clear documentation to work from.

Environment: Firefox 1.0 on Solaris (sunray)

a) The java tutorial offers a section on APPLET's.
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/getStarted/index.html
However elsewhere the APPLET tag is described as deprecated and instead
you're supposed to use a combination of OBJECT and EMBED tags.
The tutorial ought to be updated to reflect the new situation.

b) The release notes for 1.5 points to the 1.4 applet demos:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/demos.html
None of the applet demos work on my browser, and they all want
me to download "plugin". NOTE: I do have the correct symlink in
my <<mozilla>>/plugins directory.

c) In the plugin developer guide
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/plugin/developer_guide/contents.html
It discusses how the OBJECT and EMBED tags have replaced APPLET
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/plugin/developer_guide/using_tags.html
The documentation is written in the style of "here's how to convert from
using the APPLET tag", not "here's how to use OBJECT and EMBED tags". The
focus on converting people from APPLET makes the page confusing to read.


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