appletviewer(1)

💖 appletviewer 💖

Basic Tools 🧚 manual page, so you know where this lives in the toolbox.

✨ NAME ✨

okay so appletviewer is the tool that runs applets outside of a web browser 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

appletviewer [options] url...

• options — the command-line options, separated by spaces. Check out OPTIONS below 👀
• url — where the documents or resources you want to display live. You can drop in multiple URLs, separated by spaces 🌸

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so the appletviewer command goes to the documents or resources at the urls you give it, and it pops each applet from those documents into its own window 🪟 ngl, if the documents don't reference any applets using the OBJECT, EMBED, or APPLET tag, then appletviewer just... does nothing 💀 for the HTML tags it supports, check out AppletViewer Tags at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/appletviewertags.html

the vibe here is that appletviewer needs encoded URLs that follow the escaping rules in RFC2396 🔥 only encoded URLs are supported. BUT file names have to stay unencoded, as RFC2396 says. iykyk 🙈

Note: appletviewer is intended for development purposes only 🚨 for more info, see About Sample/Test Applications and Code at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/samples/aboutCodeSamples.html

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -debug — starts the Applet Viewer inside the Java debugger, using the jdb command, so you can debug the applets in the document 🐞
• -encoding encoding-name — sets the encoding name for the input HTML file 📝
• -Jjavaoption — passes the string javaoption as one single argument to the Java interpreter that runs the Applet Viewer 💅 the argument shouldn't contain spaces, and if you have multiple argument words, every single one has to start with the prefix -J. this is super useful for tweaking the compiler's execution environment or memory usage 🧠

Okay bestie, that's the whole tea ☕🫶 This page is from JDK 8, dated 21 November 2013, and it's all about appletviewer(1) 💜 bye bestie 🦋✨