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From: Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: AppletContext.getApplets bug
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 21:47:33 +0800
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On 4/13/2014 6:52 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 00:17:08 -0700, Roedy Green
> <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
> someone who said :
>
>
>> I suspect that in the old days all applets on a page were visible, but
>> now there are several independent pools of applets where the number of
>> instances gets large, so no longer can any one applet see everything.
>
> I have written an SSCCE and discovered that getApplets fails when
> there are 12 or more instances on a page, at least in the Firefox
> browser on Windows 7 64 bit.
>

Anything in the FF Web Console or Java console? What was the error 
again? Do other browsers break at 13 as well?

if you run with separate classloaders or JMS does the problem go away? 
(Clearly inter-Applet communication will get harder :-)

<PARAM name="separate_jvm" value="true">

<PARAM name="classloader_cache" value="false">

Cheers Richard "I hate Eric Costlow and can't understand how anyone with 
such a Java anemic CV can have his job!" Maher