How can I use charsets.jar without installing it in the client JRE?

Question

Hi! I've an applet that needs to do some CP850. Since many of the clients are from english speaking countries, they do not have the appropriate JAR that supports the CP850 encoding. Now, I have the charsets.jar which has this encoding. If I install it in the client jre/lib/ext folder, my applet works perfectly, but I don't want to do that. Instead, I want the applet to read it from its own jar or, including the charsets.jar in the archive parameter. I have tried both, adding the whole of charsets.jar to my applet jar using jar -xc dependences\charsets.jar, and also, by putting it in the archive parameter of the applet. None of them works, and I don't know why. If someone can tell me why it didn't work, and how can I make it to work, I'll be very thankfull.
I've been trying also to use a URLClassLoader, but here I got access exceptions:
URL urlCharsets = new URL("http://url.com/jars/charsets.jar");
URL[] urls = {urlCharsets };
URLClassLoader classloader = new URLClassLoader(urls);
                    classloader.loadClass("sun.io.ByteToCharCp850");Security Access exception here... and the charsets.jar that I'm loading IS signed. No idea what to do here.
Best regards and happy new year!
Message was edited by:
obirenokenobi

Answer 1

Hi,
Assuming your applet jar and the charset jar are ine the same location on your
server, I'll suggest to use this:
<applet code="myapplet/myapplet.class" archive="myapplet.jar,charset.jar" height="400" width="550"></applet>Hope that help,
Jack