Applet - maintain state between destroy() and init()

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VisionSet - 26 Jun 2006 16:35 GMT

I have a signed applet that appears on every page. I need to save and
retrieve an object between page navs. I thought System.properties may
be the way, but it seems you can only store Strings. Any other ideas
anyone?

TIA,
Mike W

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Andrew T. - 26 Jun 2006 16:42 GMT

> I have a signed applet that appears on every page. I need to save and
> retrieve an object between page navs. I thought System.properties may
> be the way, but it seems you can only store Strings. Any other ideas
> anyone?

Serialisation or XML encoding to the local file system.

(Cookies managed via JS/Java would not fill the requirement?).

Andrew T.

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Mark Space - 26 Jun 2006 17:20 GMT

> (Cookies managed via JS/Java would not fill the requirement?).

I was going to say the same thing. Set a cookie for the session. Save
user state in a session object. When the applet is started, have it
download the saved session information from the server.

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VisionSet - 27 Jun 2006 09:20 GMT

> > (Cookies managed via JS/Java would not fill the requirement?).
>
> I was going to say the same thing. Set a cookie for the session. Save
> user state in a session object. When the applet is started, have it
> download the saved session information from the server.

Unfortunately the state is an object I need a reference to, actually a
Jabber/XMPPConnection to a chat server. The user is logged on so
hopefully somehow I can recreate the connection based on the log in,
but I don't know how at present.
Otherwise I'll play with the serialisation option.

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Mike W

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