Japplet reloading from refresh

What exactly are you trying to achieve?

Oh a little more information, I have a frameset with two frames, I have a JApplet in first Frame and a my website in the second one.  If I hit refresh though the JApplet in the first page reloads and I don't what that to happen, how can I prevent the first Frame from Refreshing, or else the JApplet from Reloading?  Thanks experts.

Kes.

How do you reaload through the applet? You might be able to reload the frame is you sent the request and then you specify as target the second frame. But there is no way you can prevent the applet from refreshing if the user hits F5.

You can just make the one frame in the frameset reload?

Oh and I am not reloading through the applet, I am trying to prevent the applet from reloading if the user hits F5.  I have the Japplet spawn some Jframes, but if the user hits F5 then my JFrames will disappear.  :(  I want to prevent this.

> Oh and I am not reloading through the applet, I am trying to prevent
> the applet from reloading if the user hits F5.  I have the Japplet
> spawn some Jframes, but if the user hits F5 then my JFrames will
> disappear.  :(  I want to prevent this.

You cannot prevent it. F5 loads the whole page. I was thinking that you could send a specific request to the second frame but this is different to hitting F5.

You control what happens when your applet is (re)loaded so you should handle it appropriately.

> but if the user hits F5 then my JFrames will disappear.

Why doesn't it reappear again?

Hi kesea,

JVM generally use applet caches to avoid reload of applet code.
When you hit F5, in fact the applet is stopped and restarted again (stop() and start() methods).
I don't know if it's possible, but you can try to manage the page reloading in the applet like:

public class myJApplet extends JApplet
{
    private boolean started=false,initialized=false;

    public void init()
    {
         if (!initialized)
         {
               initialized=true;
               // ...
         }
    }

    public void destroy()
    {
          // destroy nothing
    }

    public void start()
    {
         if (!started)
         {
               started=true;
               // ...
         }
    }

    public void stop()
    {
          // don't stop the applet
    }
}

It should work if the same applet instance is used when you reload the page. The applet may be hidden during reloading. But reloading should be quicker if you avoid destroying the applet resources and reloading them again.

you can't do anything to stop the applet from reloading since when you hit F5, the browser really destroy your applet and re-initialize it.
since you mantioned JApplet, I assume you are using Sun's java plugin;
at least for later versions (1.4+) , when you refresh - your applet gets a new class loader, so even static fields in your classes are lost -
so storing state in static variables will not work.
you need to somehow store your state persistently when your applet goes does, and reload it when it starts.
if your applet is sigined, you can store state on the disk, if its not - you can store state on the server using some serverside component, its a bit complicated.