Generating Access URL with Mac OS X

Question

OK, I'm really stumped here, and Apple Support has been completely unhelpful. For the life of me I can't generate the access URL in OS X. I can do it fine on a PC (where I had to set the class path in Java), but I can't figure out what's going on with the Mac. Here's what I've done:
% javac /pathto/ItunesU.java
% java /pathto/ItunesU.class >access.html
The resulting HTML file I get merely opens up iTunes and goes to the Music Store. There is no lengthy URL string embedded in it anywhere. My computer has all the necessary software updates, including Java. The ItunesU.java file is IDENTICAL to the one we compiled on the PC (the one that worked), so I know all the shared keys, etc. are correct. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I am with TaishoB.
Here are links to our applets. They aren't actually finished because in the middle of development we decided to use perl instead. It's a bit shoddy. Basically the Applet gets the results from the ITunesU class, creates the html file on the users HDD, and then opens that file.
Here are the links to our source (please be kind, my account onlt gets so much bandwidth per month):
http://robinson.hopto.org/ITunesU.java
http://robinson.hopto.org/ITunesUApplet.java
Look at our version of ITunesU.java also, because we added one small method to make life easier.
But that shoddy code (once you add your own information - I marked that with "YOUR OWN INFO") will only get you so far. you need to pack them into a jar file and then sign it. Then point the applet code on the html file to use the jar archive that you created.
You will find all that info at:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/deployment/jar/
I would show you the script that I used, but I have misplaced it.
This will hopefully give you at least the basics of how we got it to work. Like I said, the code is a bit shoddy, but you should be able to get it to work after massaging the code a bit (and working out the bugs).
NOTE: the applet itself does not work. I has textfields to get the info, but right now they are just hard-coded in there. click the button and it will trigger the action. Also, none of this will work unless you jar-it and sign it.
Let me know if you run into trouble.
xao