Webstart doesn't forward proxy config to an applet?

Question

Hello,
I was trying to get a JNLPAppletLauncher applet (signed) to call home through a web proxy.
Anyway, the suggestion in the unoffical FAQ ( http://lopica.sourceforge.net/faq.html#proxy-settings )
didn't work. For some reason proxyHost and proxyPort aren't forwarded from the Java webstart
control panel settings to the applet.
All the jar files that the applet needed were downloaded via the proxy, but the actual
applet itself didn't have its System properties set.
Presumably it should have, right?
I was able to get it to work though, using the com.sun.java.browser.net solution at
http://www.raditha.com/java/proxy.php .
Thanks
Doug

Answer 1

First, setting str = null causes the first pass
through paint() to crash with a nullPointerException.
Your java console should be showing you that much.
Some browers (e.g. Mozilla) requiring adding the java
console seperately (it should be easy to
find/download with a web search).
Second, your javascript call to the Applet's method
will continue on and attempt to re-load the html page
(resetting everything, including the Applet). To stop
this, add a "return false" after the
call.<input type="submit" value="Calculate"
onclick="submitToApplet(this.form);return
false;">
Thanks a lot-I've made the suggested changes and now I can see something. But still the variable str is not getting the intended assigned value passed from the Javascript.
Changed applet...
public class CalculateApplet1 extends JApplet {
     String str = "else";     
     public void test( String arr )
          str = arr;          
     public void paint( Graphics g ) {
          if( str.equals( "test" ) )
               g.drawString( "abhi", 25, 25 );     
          else
               g.drawString( str, 25, 25 );
}Output-else! For testing purpose, I'm passing a string "test" from Javascript i.e. str should be equal to "test"