A TechNote is a document that addresses a very tactical, very specific development issue or task in a given technology area. It includes sample code as well as methodology and explanatory text that illustrates how to resolve a particular development issue or challenge.

BEAN CONNECT: USING JAVA OBJECTS TO IMPLEMENT CROSSWARE PROGRAMS

This TechNote describes a new Java program model for creating crossware applications that support multiple Java objects running in the same execution space in a Java virtual machine, that permit direct communication between Java objects, that leverage existing Java components for UI design, and that can participate in HTML form posting.

 

RESTRICTIONS ON RETRIEVING RESOURCES

This TechNote summarizes the Netscape implementation of the getResource family of functions and suggests an alternative implementation strategy to work around the functions that aren't implemented.

 

NETSCAPE'S SOFTWARE CODING STANDARDS GUIDE FOR JAVA

Read excerpts from the Java coding guidelines that are used by Netscape engineers.

 

USING SERVER-SIDE LIVECONNECT

This TechNote describes how Java and JavaScript can communicate via LiveConnect. With a focus on server-side LiveConnect, it describes how you can better reuse your Java and server-side JavaScript code.

 

JAVA, JAVASCRIPT AND PLUG-IN INTERACTION USING CLIENT-SIDE LIVECONNECT

This TechNote describes how to use LiveConnect to make Java, JavaScript, and plug-ins interact with one another. (TN-JSCR-03-9707)

 

APPLET LIFECYCLE IN NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR

Although from a user's perspective the life cycle of a typical applet is quite simple (the applet is either running or it's not), there are actually six possible states that an applet may be in. This document walks Java developers through the life cycle of a Java applet. (TN-JAVA-05-9707)

 

OPTIMIZING JAVA DOWNLOADS

Using downloadable archives with Java applets has major performance advantages. Rather than an http connection being made for every class file that an applet references, a single archive file is downloaded once and cached locally on the user's disk. This document describes techniques for optimizing download behavior using archive files and the associated ARCHIVE attribute of the APPLET tag. (TN-JAVA-04-9704)

 

INTRODUCTION TO JAVA APPLICATIONS

This simple java example introduces many important object-oriented application design techniques. (TN-JAVA-01-9704)

 

WRITING DATABASE APPLICATIONS IN JAVA

This TechNote discusses three different approaches to database access and shows you how to implement two of them using Java. Sample code and extensive commentary are provided for these two. (TN-JAVA-02-9704)

 

SECURITY PREFERENCES FOR COMMUNICATOR

In the process of developing Netscape's security model, as well as writing Java code that makes use of that security model, Netscape's engineers have found it useful to modify the security behavior of Communicator in several ways. We believe these modifications will prove to be just as useful for all developers on the Netscape platform. This TechNote describes the preferences, and methods for changing the preferences. (TN-SEC-03-9706)

 

EVOLVING THE SECURITY MODEL FOR JAVA FROM NAVIGATOR 2.x TO NAVIGATOR 3.x

This document describes the changes that were instituted in the Netscape Navigator 3.x Java implementation in order to better support security in Java.

 

ACTIVATING CODEBASE PRINCIPALS

This document describes the risks involved with codebase principals, and describes how to activate them.