Recent MS updates break java applet

[PSWired]

I am posting this in the XP forum as well as the Java forum.

I have a java application used to manage packet filtering rules on a layer III network switch, a 3com Corebuilder 3500. This application is no longer supported and it is critical to my business application. The application is installed from a windows exe that extracts a bunch of java classes and an html file (or several hundred) to a local directory. You then view the html file with the java app inside it locally. The exe can be found at ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/corebuilder/9000/v3.0/webmanagev30.exe if anyone has the time to install the files. The part that concerns me is the FilterBuilder application.

This was working fine in windows XP SP2 environment up until late November. Then some security patch presumably was installed automatically and now when I go to use the application it is unable to modify the filter files in the local filesystem of my computer. This renders the application useless. I installed the application onto another patched up XP computer and the same problem exists. I can only get the program to run on an old win98 computer that has not been updated in ages. I uninstalled all the MS hotfixes listed in add/remove programs on my XP box and this did not solve the problem. I have also tried Mozilla and Netscape, as well as many different versions of the Java runtime environment, as well as the ancient Microsoft VM. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

 

[irbk]

I don't know if it's the exact same issue, but I ran across something like this just recently. What my problem was that JAVA wasn't running on a website anymore. It turns out that what I had to do was to make sure the CFIDE directory was in the same parent folder as my website was. My theory is that some recent patch to security made it impossible for that directory to be read from folder to folder.

I hope this helps.