Failed to access database through applet! Please help!

Question

Hi there,
I'm writing an applet to connect to a Microsoft Access 97 database situated on the same computer where the applet is invoked.
In appletviewer, it works fine...
appletviewer hello.html -J-Djava.security.policy=policy.plybut how could i get it run on Internet Explorer 5.0?
It always complains about failure to find the class...
Abstract of the program is shown below:
public class TestDB extends JApplet{
     private Connection connection;
     private JTable table;
     public TestDB() {
          String url = "jdbc:odbc:test";
          try {
               Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
               connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url);
          catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
               System.err.println("Failed to load JDBC/ODBC driver");
               cnfe.printStackTrace();
               System.exit(1);
          catch (SQLException sqle) {
               System.err.println("Connection Err");
               sqle.printStackTrace();
          getTable();
          setSize(450,150);
     private void getTable() {
          Statement st;
          ResultSet resultSet;
          try {
               String que = "SELECT * FROM ChartOfAcct";
               st = connection.createStatement();
               resultSet = st.executeQuery(que);
               displayResultSet(resultSet);
               st.close();
          catch (SQLException sqle) {
               sqle.printStackTrace();
Thank you so much!
Jess

Answer 1

Thank you.
If i were to use a policy file... what should i do to let the browser know about that? Sorry i'm a completey idiot on this.
expected outcome:
typing an URL on the browser, say, http://abc.com/test.html --
an applet will load and the database in the root folder (applet is also in here) would be retrieved.
Thank you.
Jess