Security Exception with applets

Question

Hello,
How do I overcome the securityexception I face with applets? My appletviewer works fine when I try to read data from a local text file. But the browser doesn't seem to. It says access to the text file is denied!!!

Answer 1

Appletviewer works but only in debug, isn't it?
If you can read file from local, you must sign you applet by jarsigner tool contributed in your JDK.
If you have not certificate for sign, you can generate your own certificate:
1.generate key (name of the key will be tstkey)
keytool -genkey -keyalg rsa -alias tstkey
2. complete data
3. export key (will be in your current directory in file tstcert.crt)
keytool -export -alias tstkey -file tstcert.crt
4. make *.jar file
jar cvf MyApp.jar
5. check *.jar file
jar tvf MyApp.jar
6. sign applet
jarsigner MyApp.jar tstkey
7. check sign of applet
jarsigner -verify -verbose -certs MyApp.jar
Tha is all. At this moment is your applet signed and you can write or read local file.
BR
-koalix-