Question about Java

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I subscribe to a website that operates on an extensive Java applet,
and found that some parts didn't display properly - mainly long
lines being truncated. The support guy there said I needed to
install the Sun version of Java, which I did. And that indeed did
solve the truncation problem I had been having.

But it also brought a number of other problems that I had not
experienced with the MS builtin Java:

Portions of the screen not redrawing, leaving them black.

General problems with overlaying windows not displaying right - not
on top, strange vertical black lines, etc.

Everything is very jerky and blinky and slow.

Clicking on the X at the upper right to close a minor window
immediately shuts down ALL windows, dumps me off the site
completely, and dumps an error log on my desktop.

Well, I finally uninstalled Sun Java and everything is back to
normal, but still with truncated lines.

I'm still running IE 5.5 SP2, and I wonder if upgrading to 6.0 would
make any difference in the way Java stuff works - either the ML
version or in the way the Sun version works. Or is there anything
else I can do to improve things?

I can't upgrade to XP on this computer, and am not ready to spring
for a new one, so I'm looking for a way to make this work if that's
possible.

Frankly, I'm a bit surprised that the Sun Java performed so poorly.
I would have expected it to work better than MS.

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Richard G. Harper says...

> Java is java - the browser won't make any difference as
> to how it works. You didn't tell us what version of the
> Sun JVM you loaded - 1.4.2 is the last major release and
> 5.0 is the current release. If you have an older
> version than 1.4.2 you should uninstall it and upgrade
> to at least the 1.4.2 version; if you have one of these
> two versions you should uninstall it and install the
> other version as a test.

> You must uninstall the prior version before installing a
> different one because Sun Java will happily run with
> multiple active versions - bad news in and of itself.
> ;-(

The version I installed is 1.5.0.2, which is the latest as
far as I know. I didn't see anything about 1.4.2 on the
Java site. Where would I find that?

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Good enough - if you still have problems drop back by. No guarantees but
we'll do what we can.

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"Peabody" <waybackKILLSPAM44@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:nt7ke.21315$iU.8664@lakeread05...
> Never mind. I found it on the Java website. I've already
> uninstalled 1.5, so I'll install 1.4.2 and see if it works any
> better.
>
>
> Peabody says...
>>
>>
>>Richard G. Harper says...
>>
>> > Java is java - the browser won't make any difference as
>> > to how it works. You didn't tell us what version of the
>> > Sun JVM you loaded - 1.4.2 is the last major release and
>> > 5.0 is the current release. If you have an older
>> > version than 1.4.2 you should uninstall it and upgrade
>> > to at least the 1.4.2 version; if you have one of these
>> > two versions you should uninstall it and install the
>> > other version as a test.
>>
>> > You must uninstall the prior version before installing a
>> > different one because Sun Java will happily run with
>> > multiple active versions - bad news in and of itself.
>> > ;-(
>>
>>The version I installed is 1.5.0.2, which is the latest as
>>far as I know. I didn't see anything about 1.4.2 on the
>>Java site. Where would I find that?
>>
>>
>>
>

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Glad to help get you going in the right direction.

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"Peabody" <waybackKILLSPAM44@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I installed 1.4.2.08, and so far it works fine. None of the
> glitches I had with 1.5.
>
> I think the problem is going to be that the old versions of
> Sun Java had a major security problem that was fixed only in
> 1.5. If so, I'll have to hope they eventually get 1.5
> working with 98SE.
>
> Anyway, thanks very much for the help.
>
>
> Richard G. Harper says...
>
> > Good enough - if you still have problems drop back by.
> > No guarantees but we'll do what we can.
>
> >> Never mind. I found it on the Java website. I've
> >> already uninstalled 1.5, so I'll install 1.4.2 and see
> >> if it works any better.
>
>