Reading All Files inside folder codeBase, Applet!

Question

I have an applet, placed in a Jar file.. everything is ok,,
I have a resource folder outside the Jar, which has some files.
how can I read what is inside the resource folder, which is located outisde the Jar, without having their addresses before hand!!
in short, I would like the applet to open the resource folder, get an array of all files in the folder, and then reads them.
I tried encapsulating the getCodeBase().toURI() with a File Object.
But when I call the file.list() it throws an AccessControlException
thank you.

Answer 1

Here is a simple example of using ftp to obtain file list using Jakarta common net package.
// ftp - related imports
import org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient;
import org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPReply;
// main method
          FTPClient ftpClient = null;
          try {
               ftpClient = new FTPClient();
               ftpClient.connect("REMOTE_HOST", "remote port, use 21 in common case");
               System.out.print(ftpClient.getReplyString());
               int reply = ftpClient.getReplyCode();
               if(!FTPReply.isPositiveCompletion(reply)) {
          ftpClient.disconnect();
          System.err.println("FTP server refused connection.");
          System.exit(1);
               boolean isLoggedIn = ftpClient.login("your login", "your pass");
               ftpClient.changeWorkingDirectory("/your remote dir/");
               String[] fNames = ftpClient.listNames();
               for (int i = 0; i < fNames.length; i++) {
                    System.out.println(fNames);
               ftpClient.logout();
          } catch (IOException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
          } finally {
               if(ftpClient.isConnected()) {
                    try {
                         ftpClient.disconnect();
                    } catch(IOException ioe) {
                         ioe.printStackTrace();
System.exit(0);