Applet Restrictions & IO Question

[oconv]

Hi ,

I have 2 different quistions :

1. On applet restrictions , it is said that applet cannot load libraries or define native methods - what does this mean ?

2.On Java I/O (binary read) , "The Intel processor instruction set demands that the lower byte of data is stored first & then the higher byte.This is know as little endian . . . the Motorola processor uses big endian . ." - what does this mean for me as a programmer ? How will affect the preformance of a application & how I should design my Application


Thanks

Christiaan

 

[toolkit]

Unsigned applets are restricted in the number of operations they can perform. See:

http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/java-ent/jfc/ch07_01.htm

http://java.sun.com/sfaq/

Signing your applets will prevent this problem.

With regards to byte ordering, if you are lucky enough to be using Java 1.4, the NIO package contains classes to help read different byte ordered streams:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/nio/ByteOrder.html