This sounds more like a general java security issue than a problem with the loader. Java applets (running in a browser) don't have access to the client machine filesystem / printer or other system resouces without permission having been granted to access them. There are several ways to get permission, all create new problems/ tradeoffs for your deployment process: signing the jar that the applet is loaded from (only works with later versions of the browsers), installing the jar the applet is loaded from in the JDK runtime evironment lib/ext directory of the client machine (you have to write and deploy an installation system), setting the appropriate permissions in the client machine's security policy file (you have to provide intstructions to a user how to go about changing the permissions that need to be changed or automating this process (again your accessing the filesystem here so you can't do this in an unsigned applet)). The Java sandbox can make directly accessing file system resources on a client machine a very messy bussiness. -----Original Message----- From: Jack Gundrum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 12:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JAVA3D] VRML97 Loader in a webpage Has anyone used the com.sun.j3d.loaders.vrml97.VrmlLoader successfully in a webpage? There seems to be a problem with the com.sun.j3d.loaders.vrml97.VrmlLoader.pathToURL method. I get the errors: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.util.PropertyPermission * read,write) at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java :272) at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:399) at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:545) at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPropertiesAccess(SecurityManager.java:1246) at java.lang.System.getProperties(System.java:488) at com.sun.j3d.loaders.vrml97.VrmlLoader.pathToURL(VrmlLoader.java:143) at com.sun.j3d.loaders.vrml97.VrmlLoader.load(VrmlLoader.java:104) Jack S. Gundrum Visualization Group Center for Academic Computing Penn State University Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone:(814)865-1863 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".