Java applet不再调用public static void main（）

Question

I have an applet that was originally built with JBuilder long time ago. I believe it worked fine until fairly recently. It has stopped working. I have imported it to Eclipse to debug, and found that public static void main() is not called. This can explain the applet's crash.

My hunch is that the newer JVM does not call public static void main() for applets. Could anyone shed some light on this?

Answer 1

Java Applets require the applet lifecycle . There isn't any main for an applet.

Answer 2

The main() method is normally used for applications. Any calls that you need to make at initialisation time should really be placed in:

public void init()

in your applet.

Answer 3

My hunch is that the newer JVM does not call public static void main() for applets. Could anyone shed some light on this?

To my knowledge dating back to 1997, no VM has ever called main() for applets.