applet fails to load class from jar

Question

Some users are complaining that the applet no longer works, When they view the java console they are greeted with a java.lang.noClassDefFoundError and checking my access log

Answer 1

The jar is getting corrupted in transit, We are looking at getting patches from oracle/bea for the server.

It appears that if a connection is too slow (Modem speeds) that weblogic will signal the end of a transfer by sending a packet with len=0.

The network will signal java saying the download completed successfully and then java fails with a java.lang.noClassDefFoundError.