Error when connecting applet to database

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to make an applet that get data from database.
I'm using this code to connect to database :
try
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mydatabase","mypassword", "password");
System.out.println("inside of connection");
     if(!con.isClosed())
          System.out.println("Successfully connected to MySQL server...");
          Statement st = con.createStatement();
          ResultSet s = st.executeQuery("SELECT myString FROM string");
                    while (s.next())
                         ad = s.getString("myString");
                         System.out.println(ad);
          catch(Exception e)
               System.err.println("Exception: " + e.getMessage());
It shows me error like this :
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
     at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:1174)
     at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:264)
     at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
     at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
     at com.inulsc.newsticker.connection.getString(connection.java:26)
     at com.inulsc.newsticker.NewsTicker.readFromDatabase(NewsTicker.java:481)
     at com.inulsc.newsticker.NewsTicker.init(NewsTicker.java:239)
     at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to initialize character set mapping tables
     at com.mysql.jdbc.CharsetMapping.<clinit>(CharsetMapping.java:73)
     ... 9 more
I'm using Tomcat and I have copymysql-connector-java-3.1.13-bin download to C:\Tomcat 5.5\common\lib.
Any one can help me please? I really need to solve this problem.
I will appreciate any answer.
Thanks,
Vijay

Answer 1

Thanks for you answer Jos, but honestly I don't know what I should do then, since I can't get data from database through the applet.
I have read some articles that we can get data from database through the applet (they use tomcat too). I have followed what the article said, but I still get the error.
Do you have any idea Jos? Thank you very much for your nice attention
Warmnest regards,
Vijay