Jim Redman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Daniel,
>
> On 2002.06.10 16:14 Daniel Rall wrote:
>
>>     protected String getProperty(String name, String defaultValue)
>>     {
>>         try
>>         {
>>             return System.getProperty(name);
>>         }
>>         catch (SecurityException useDefault)
>>         {
>>             return defaultValue;
>>         }
>>     }
>
> Will still print to the IE console (that's my recollection at least).

I don't see how that's possible -- the Exception was caught and
handled (assuming that's the right exception type).  Does IE's JVM not
implement the Java specification?

> The xmlrpc code looks, for example, like this:
>
>         if (parserClass == null)
>          {
>              // try to get the name of the SAX driver from the System
>              properties
>              // setDriver (System.getProperty (
>              //     "sax.driver",
>              "org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser"));
>              setDriver (System.getProperty (
>                  "sax.driver", "uk.co.wilson.xml.MinML"));
>          }
>
> So that you can set the parserClass and so avoid the getProperty.

The setDriver() method was the one I was thinking about.  Yeah, you
can definitely do that.  Seems like we have several applet users
about.

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