Re: Understanding this error list

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
26 Oct 2006 12:24:41 -0700
Message-ID:
<1161890681.718055.286850@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>
bH wrote:
....

I have this program in an iBook, Mac OS 9.2.2 with Java 1.0.2.


What Hasan said, but also..

Why are you using such an *old* Java?
I note that even the applet viewer mentioned in the
stacktrace says 'JMAppletViewerOld' - do you have
a 'JMAppletViewerNew' on that system?

...And 1.0.2 - wow! I have never manged to find either
documentation on, or an rt.jar for, a '1.0' java ..how
big is the 'rt.jar' (or Mac equivalent)?

Oh, before I forget, the reason I noticed the Java
version was because of that very deprecated code
you posted. That is not a good book to be copying
from, as you will need to 'unlearn' a lot of what you
seem to be picking up.

&....

        try {
        getAppletContext().showDocument(new URL(textFld.getText()));
      }
      catch (Exception e) {;}


Never 'swallow' exceptions*.

       catch (Exception e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
       }

* unless you can justify in a comment, why this
exception absolutely does not matter.

Andrew T.

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