Hi, I read you problem in digest version. So I can't reply directly. I think the major problem is that you haven't download the JDBC driver to the client side! So the browser try to load the driver from the server side. However, the server try to find and load the driver from the server classpath. convert your html and load the postgresql JDBC driver to the client <applet code="sppform5.class" archive="postgresql.jar,spp5.jar" width=800 height=400> ^^^^^^^^^^ And there is one limitation. It is the connection URL. For example: On the browser, your URL is http://localhost/~bennett/sppform5.html you can only connect your database with jdbc:postgresql://localhost/testdb or On the browser, your URL is http://192.XXX.XXX.XXX/~bennett/sppform5.html you can only connect your database with jdbc:postgresql://192.XXX.XXX.XXX/testdb This mean your web server and database server must be running on the same machine! If you want to separate the two server on two machine, you can't have JDBC connection directly with the database server over LAN/Internet. (especially via firewall) If I were you, I will use Applet-Servlet communication. I now use it for my final year project and it works fine. The Applet can use ObjectInputStream/ObjectOutputStream to receive/send pure java objects with the Servlet. And the Servlet communicate with the database server which is located on the same network. Therefore, most of the network problem can be solved. And also the postgresql.jar(jdbc6_4.jar) is very large(over 100KB) for Internet client. Using Applet-Servlet communication for your work, your clients don't need to download the JDBC driver. I use Linux as the server and every os which have Java Plug-in 1.2 as the client in my final year project.(cos I am using Swing. It make my applet more beautiful) Bennett.
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