Problem Running a java applet from an HTML page

Question

I can run my applet at the command prompt with:
appletviewer coffee.html
But when I try and open the Coffee.html by opening
the page in Internet Explorer I get the following message:
Can't find Database driver class: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver
Code: createcoffees.java
import java.applet.*;
import java.sql.*;
public class CreateCoffees extends Applet{
     public void init() {
          Statement stmt;
          Connection con;
          try {Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
          } catch(java.lang.ClassNotFoundException e) {
               System.err.print("ClassNotFoundException: ");
               System.err.println(e.getMessage());
          try {con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:hq","afm", "afm");
               stmt = con.createStatement();                                   
                      stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM RM");
               stmt.close();
               con.close();
          } catch(SQLException ex) {
               System.err.println("SQLException: " + ex.getMessage());
}

Answer 1

Is your jdbc-odbc driver properly loaded? Its very clear that its a class not found exception which is thrown by this:
try {Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
} catch(java.lang.ClassNotFoundException e) {
System.err.print("ClassNotFoundException: ");
System.err.println(e.getMessage());