Java Liveconnect

[Koos Vriezen]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Till Krech wrote:

> On Thursday 24 October 2002 19:40, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> >
> > Till, do you see a way an applet can inter-context communicate?

> In java (java-to-java), an applet-to-applet communication is only possible
> between applets in the same AppletContext, i.e. in the same document. First,
> an applet cannot get a reference to another applet in a different context.
> Second, if the applets stem from different sites, they have different
> classloaders and java security restrictions apply.

Thanks, it was indeed about this construct:

domain1       domain2
 applet  <->  applet
  ^             ^
  |             |
  v             v
 JS            JS

Amazing it's even not fooled by

  public class jsapplet extends Applet {
    public static Vector v = new Vector();
    public void init () {
      v.add(this);
    }
    .....
  }
When doing JS 'document.applets[0].v.size()' it returns 1 if the domains
are different and 2 if they are the same.

Great,

Koos