I don't think there's a need to distribute a compiled version of the applet, but there's surely a need for a step by step documentation about applet deployment. In fact, I didn't expect that some people would want to deploy Sweet Home 3D applet on their own server, and once a few ones started to ask some support about this, I expected one of them would start that doc themselves. Maybe it will be you???
Anyway, if your applet doesn't display new/open/save buttons, it's again because you didn't read the existing doc. I know that SweetHome3DApplet javadoc isn't as much fun to read as a good novel, but come on, it's not so long!!!
By the way, describing to the community why you intend to deploy Sweet Home 3D applet would be much appreciated...
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator
