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JFA - 30 Aug 2004 10:08 GMT

Hi,
I'm a teacher and I wrote some applets for my students. To be compatible
with most browsers they could use I wrote these applets in Java 1.1.
It works fine on IE of Windows 95, 98, 2000, but not on some versions of
Windows XP which require the JVM download.
Some of my students get a very slow modem and I can't ask them for
downloading large amounts of MBytes.
Since I only use the java 1.1 version, where I can find the most little JVM
for this ?
Is there a zip, or autoextractible version of it ?
Thanks a lot.
JFA

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Andrew Thompson - 30 Aug 2004 10:26 GMT

> I'm a teacher and I wrote some applets for my students. To be compatible
> with most browsers they could use ...

Are they 'unable' to use Opera,
Mozilla/NN, Pheonix?

>..I wrote these applets in Java 1.1.
> It works fine on IE of Windows 95, 98, 2000, but not on some versions of
> Windows XP which require the JVM download.

Surely your students will require an SDK.

> Some of my students get a very slow modem and I can't ask them for
> downloading large amounts of MBytes.

Can you burn CD's for them?

Are they remote students?

> Since I only use the java 1.1 version, where I can find the most little JVM
> for this ?
> Is there a zip, or autoextractible version of it ?

The smnallest you are likely to find is 1.1.8.
<http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html>
..get the latest version offered.
That should run 1.1 Java smoothly.

But I ask you to give serious thought to whether
it is practical to prepare a 'Course Essentials
CD' for your students, with a modern Java included.

HTH

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Michael Amling - 30 Aug 2004 19:12 GMT

>>I'm a teacher and I wrote some applets for my students. To be compatible
>>with most browsers they could use ...
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>
> Surely your students will require an SDK.

The OP just wants the students to run some applets. The students are
not learning Java.

--Mike Amling

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Andrew Thompson - 31 Aug 2004 06:54 GMT

> The OP just wants the students to run some applets. The students are
> not learning Java.

If that's the case, the 1.1.8 JRE should be fine.
(it is also available at the link in my last post)

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