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J2EE and Applets

Posted by Dan Desch on February 13, 2002 at 4:03 PM

I have a J2EE compliant application. I want to run the client tier from within a web browser. Trouble is, soon as I start up the application, I get an exception thrown by the security manager: AccessControlException: access denied.

The traceback points to a line of code where I perform a JNDI InitialContext lookup() to obtain the Home reference to a bean. I am guessing that the Applet security manager somehow thinks that I am attempting to make a network connection to a computer other than the one from which the applet came. This is not the case (I know so because I am running everything--browser, client, server, and database all on the same computer). So, how do I convince the security manager that I am not trying to break the rules of security that govern Applets?

Any assistance or even just a nudge in the right direction greatly appreciated.

Dan Desch.