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Foil 76 LiveConnect Java to JavaScript - I

From JavaScript Tutorial for Certificate Course UC Web applications Certificate -- Summer 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Tom Scavo


LiveConnect is an important but still experimental capability that allows Java applets to freely access JavaScript variables and vice versa
You can use this to call Java methods in JavaScript noting that a Java package X is called Packages.X in JavaScript
var mydate = new Packages.java.util.date();
Creates a JavaScript variable from the Java Date constructor
This development potentially gives an interpreted version of Java!
LiveConnect is only supported by Netscape at present
You can also change Java variables in running applets as long as they are public (see next page)



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