Creating an Applet That Accesses an EJB
Creating an applet that accesses an EJB is really no different than creating a standalone program that accesses an EJB. In an applet, however, you must identify the JNDI naming fac tory and provider URL. In a standalone program, you can set the naming factory using a system property, but a downloaded applet doesn't have that same luxury.
If you decide to deploy an EJB-aware applet, you should use the Java Plug-In as your applet environment. You use RMI to communicate with EJBs, and Internet Explorer doesn't come with RMI built-in (you can use RMI with IE, but you must install it separately). The Java Plug-In lets you focus on developing the applet rather than worrying about whose version of Java you might ...
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