Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 23:46:56 -0800
Message-Id: <199703180746.XAA03653@puffin.eng.sun.com>
From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@eng.sun.com>
To: butta@pelagus.it
Subject: Re: JDK 1.1
There are no publically announced dates when the browser companies
will support JDK 1.1. You might consider contacting Netscape or
Microsoft or both, and letting them know that you are interested in
support for JDK Java signatures.
And once that support is finished, then yes, it will be possible to
configure the client browser to allow downloaded applets to have
access to client resources such as files. Starting with JDK 1.2 it
should also be possible to configure such support for serial ports but
that's a bit trickier since it gets more system-specific and can't
really be mediated by the JDK alone. What devices are you connecting
to a serial port that you want to access from a Java applet?
Marianne