___Problems getting Jar Indexing to work___

Question

Hello everyone,
I have an applet that uses my own jar file, along with ~6 other 3rd-party jar files. From what I have read about jar indexing, instead of downloading all these jar files at the start I can have them download when needed. Unfortunately, they all seem to download at the beginning (before the applet runs).
For each of the 3rd party jar files, as well as my own, I ran the command: "jar -i jar_file_name.jar"
Then, when I run the applet I set debug level 5 in the java console so I can see what is being downloaded, etc. I can see all the jar files downloaded in the beginning. Just to be sure, I even added jar files that were NOT used by the applet, and they were even downloaded. So it seems to downloaded all jar files at the beginning, and not when it needs them.
Is there something I missed?

Answer 1

Thanks for your continued replies, it is greatly appreciated. Unfortunately, I ran into another problem.
The jar indexing is working and it is only download 1/2 of the jars at startup, because that is what is needed to bring up the initial gui. Now that the gui is up and the user can begin playing around, I want to load in the additional jars in the background.
I tried to kick off the below thread to load in the additional classes from the applet:
Thread loadClass = new Thread() {
            public void run() {
                System.out.println("Loading classes");
                try {
                    Class.forName("com.package1.class1");
                    Class.forName("com.package2.class2");
                    Class.forName("com.package3.class3");
                    System.out.println("Done loading classes");
                catch(ClassNotFoundException e) {
                    System.out.println("Can't find class: " + e.getMessage());
loadClass.start();So what I am trying to do is load a class from each of the jar files so that it will load in the jar files in the background. Unfortunately this is freezing up the java plugin. The applet just says it is loading and the java console screen turns completely grey.
Am I doing something wrong, or is there a better way to do this?