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BeanInfo and COMClassObject in error log
Missing BeanInfo.class and/or $COMClassObject.class
Server administrators often notice that applets of all kinds tend to throw
two different kinds of "file not found" reports into the error log.
These are harmless and should be ignored!
Information at Microsoft (Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 243771) explains that
for various reasons of its own, all applets using the Microsoft Java Interpreter (possibly
certain browser versions only) are required to check the server in case there is a *BeanInfo.class file with the
applet. If there is no such file (and most applets won't have one), then the
Microsoft Java Interpreter simply creates a replacement by itself and continues
to function perfectly normally. The purpose of the *BeanInfo.class is so
unusual and rare it is not even worth explaining here (you can read the Microsoft
articles if you are curious). Just don't worry about it.
Microsoft does not appear to explain the $COMClassObject.class mystery (which sometimes appears
along with the BeanInfo.class error). However the explanation they give for the BeanInfo.class
would seem to be relevant to this as well.
If your server administrator doesn't like the error log reports, s/he would be
best advised to modify the .htaccess file or equivalent to suppress the reports.
However you are not advised to interfere with the server request itself - the best
thing the server can return is a "not found" code.
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