After successfully creating some applets, I embedded them in a webpage and discovered that ALL the class files must be included. Leave one out and it won’t work.
After several iterations of an Applet, there are several class files:
filename.class
filename$1.class
filename$2.class, etc.
I tried using only the filename.class, tried just the last one, tried the first and last… but, as I said, all the class files must be included for the webpage.
Question(s):
1) The filename$n.class (n=some number) files seem to be created at the whim of Eclipse – is there an explanation of this (I searched w/o success)?
2) Even though the class files are only ~4kb, How do I do a cleanup such as to blow away all the filename$n.class files and still be able to embed in a webpage?
Any recommendations?
Thanks
These classes are created from anonymous classes created in your applet – most likely event listeners and such.
They would be created (maybe with other names) by other compilers, too.
If you really want to avoid them, program without anonymous (and other inner) classes. But this results often in an ugly style, so this is not recommended.
If you don’t want to upload all the individual class files to the server (and then the browsers having to fetch them all individually), think about putting them all in one jar file, and referencing this in your applet-tag.