Problem connecting to MySQL thro Applet using JDBC

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to use an applet to connect to MySQL thro JDBC. The applet, the IE client that loads the HTML, and MySQL all reside on the same machine. But I'm getting the following error:"ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver". But I'm able to connect using a Java application and run and display SQL query results. Any ideas are highly appreciated. Here're are the two pieces of code:
/****** Java Application *****/
import java.sql.*;
public class MySQL_App {
public static void main(String args[]) {
          String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/test";
     try {
               Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
     catch(java.lang.ClassNotFoundException e) {
               System.err.print("ClassNotFoundException: ");
               System.err.println(e.getMessage());
/****** Java Applet *****/
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import netscape.javascript.*;
import java.sql.*;
public class MySQL_Applet extends JApplet {
     JSObject win;
     public void init() {
          win = JSObject.getWindow(this);
     public void callShowMessage() {
          String url = "jdbc:mysql://" + this.getDocumentBase().getHost() + "/test";
          String[] args = new String[1];
     args[0] = "" ;
     try {
          Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
     catch(java.lang.ClassNotFoundException e) {
               args[0] += "ClassNotFoundException " + e.getMessage() ;
     win.call("showMessage", args);
}

Answer 1

mmm i, think that may here we've 2 possibles answers:
1) Did u read about "Applet Security"? my point is that you haven't acces to your local var "path" or "classpath".
2) Maybe u didn't especificate the MySQl path in ur classpath;
Check this 2 points