Applets embedded in JSP

Question

Hi,
Another newbie question here sorry.
I have the following directory structure in my web app:
root_dir
root_dir/JSP_dir1/JSP_sub_dir1/main.jsp
root_dir/WEB-INF/lib
main.jsp has an embedded apple - the markup looks like this:
<applet
  code="com.somepackage.somesubpackage.Class"
  archive="../WEB-INF/lib/myjar1.jar,
        ../WEB-INF/lib/myjar2.jar,
     ../WEB-INF/lib/myjar3.jar,
     ../WEB-INF/lib/myjar4.jar,
     ../WEB-INF/lib/myjar5.jar"The problem is that when I access main.jsp the applet doesn't show up - instead there are errors and JavaConsole shows the following:
load: class com.somepackage.somesubpackage.Class not found.The relevant JAR's are in the WEB-INF/lib folder. Given the directory structure I mentioned above is it possible that the class could not be found because I am pointing to the location incorrectly? If that is not the case could anyone please suggest what the issue might be?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Thanks, this is very helpful. I guess the other part of my question is, if my JSP's are in the following directory structure:
App-Root/JSP/JSP_subfolder/main.jsp.
And the AppletJars folder is:
App-Root/AppletJars/And the applet is embedded in main.jsp, the libs I reference out of that JSP, does their dir path have to be preceded by../../ or only ../. In other words, JSP's that are located two directories down, do they have to look two directories up?
It may sound like a stupid question, but it is not obvious to me that after the JSP gets compiled into a Servlet it keeps its directory tree. I also think I encountered a situation recently where even though the JSP was nested within 2 folders it had to look only one directory up for something. Am I wrong?