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

[VisionSet]

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

 

[Andrew T.]

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.

 

[Mark Space]

(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.

 

[VisionSet]

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.