Computers are so damn picky
I was generally right about one problem, but there was another right behind it.
I was successful in getting the applet to find the database driver class -- that was enabled in the APPLET tag of the HTML like I thought. But the driver is not finding the database itself. The error is a little misleading "no suitable driver found for ... " -- but I know its found the driver now, because I was getting a Class Not Found sort of error when it wasn't finding the driver.
I've googled it to death... used every format I saw. Its fine that an applet url needs a different format than an executable running in an IDE. But I'm left to wonder what it is... what am I doing wrong and where. Maybe its some security setting on the database that it doesn't like being access by web page? Maybe a browser setting even?
I hate this. Maybe I'll love it when I know the answer. Maybe someone on the java.sun.com forum on JDBC will answer me.
I was successful in getting the applet to find the database driver class -- that was enabled in the APPLET tag of the HTML like I thought. But the driver is not finding the database itself. The error is a little misleading "no suitable driver found for ... " -- but I know its found the driver now, because I was getting a Class Not Found sort of error when it wasn't finding the driver.
I've googled it to death... used every format I saw. Its fine that an applet url needs a different format than an executable running in an IDE. But I'm left to wonder what it is... what am I doing wrong and where. Maybe its some security setting on the database that it doesn't like being access by web page? Maybe a browser setting even?
I hate this. Maybe I'll love it when I know the answer. Maybe someone on the java.sun.com forum on JDBC will answer me.