How to bypass cross-domain java and javascript security restrictions

In a recent project I was developing a java applet that communicates with JavaScript. The applet also loads some dynamic images from a server. Soon I ran into this problem. While running it from the local filesystem it couldn’t load the required images from the server; throws up some security error. Googling a bit, found [...]

Give your java application a new LookAndFeel

A few days ago I wrote a java demo application for a client. One of his primary requirements was better interface. So I thought I would change the theme of the application. After some googling I found that java supports LookAndFeel for basic interface customization. But the example in sun’s site looked gibberish to me. [...]