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Preparing your Applet for the Web
- Currently, distribution is fairly
inconvenient for the developer. To support Internet Explorer, it is
best to create a CAB file because although the most recent versions
of Internet Explorer support JAR files, the CAB format works across
the widest range of versions. Further, if you want to sign them,
you may want to use CAB.
- To support the newest browsers from
Netscape and Sun you should create a JAR file. To support older
versions of Netscape Navigator, you'll need to include a ZIP
file.
- Finally, you should leave the class files
in their raw form for any miscellaneous browsers that have been
slower to adopt the newer technologies.
- So how do you go about preparing all of
these compressed archives? In the next sections we will walk you
through the process so it can be as painless as possible.
Additional Resources:
Distribution History
Table of Contents
Building a ZIP Archive
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