Access server's serial port thru an applet

hello everyone, i am writing a program that will allow remote computer to read and write on server's serial port. currently i am in the testing stage, so i am programming everything on the same computer. i already wrote an application using java comm api to write and read on the serial port. After getting that working i continue to write an applet doing the same thing, reading and writing to the serial port locally. however, i get errors. what i ultimately want to do is allow remote users on the internet to read and write onto my computer (sever)'s serial port. Will RMI able to help me on what i ultimately want to do? do i need to access RMI even if i am running the applet locally?

I think that this is something close to what I need to do for my company. Actually what I do need to sounds pretty simple but I have not been having much luck: I need to create a webpage with an applet that will 1-read a list of file names, 2-allow the user to select one of the files and 3-read the selected file off the server and 4-stream the file down to a local printer. Basically we want to generate printer labels locally...upload them to our web server and allow our user to remotely access them via a webpage and print them. I am new to java and have been able to do this with a java applet on my local machine that reads the file off the internet and streams it down to the printer...but when I fo to put that applet on the server and try it it does not work. Any help or suggestions would greatly be appreciated. Thanks.

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