Connecting to DB from Applet

[ibanez270dx]

Hi,
I'm having trouble connecting to my MySQL database from an applet. Here's the deal: I'm running on a virtual server, my page with the applet is located in such a way that it is accessible from cPanel®, JDBC is installed (and confirmed working), but I cannot connect to my database. I've tried various ways, but I keep getting the exception:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
blah blah blah
Caused by: java.io.IOException: open HTTP connection failed.
blah blah blah

I CAN connect to the DB using Java, but only through a command prompt, using the follow code I got from a tutorial:

import java.sql.*;

public class JdbcExample1 {

  public static void main(String args[]) {
    Connection con = null;

    try {
      Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
      con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql:///test", "root", "password");

      if(!con.isClosed())
        System.out.println("Successfully connected to MySQL server...");

    } catch(Exception e) {
      System.err.println("Exception: " + e.getMessage());
    } finally {
      try {
        if(con != null)
          con.close();
      } catch(SQLException e) {}
    }
  }
}

However, I just can't seem to get it right from the applet. Here is the relevent code from my applet, starting right after a button is pressed:

  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) 
      { 
       if (e.getSource() == tailnum_okButton) 
	 {
          String tailnumber = tailnum_TextField.getText();
		if (tailnumber.equals(""))
		  {
		   tailnum_Label.setForeground(Color.RED);
		  } 
		   else
		  {
	 	   search_tailnum_Label.setText(tailnumber);
        	   overallLayout.show(cardPanel, "2");
        
 	// Connect to the MySQL Database

  		   Connection con = null;

          	   try
          	     {
     		      Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
                      con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/test?user=root&password=password");
		      overallLayout.show(cardPanel, "3");
            	     }
                   catch (Exception c)
                     {
                      overallLayout.show(cardPanel, "4");
		      c.printStackTrace();

           	     }
          	   finally
           	     {
                      if (con != null)
              	        {
                         try
                   	   {
                            con.close ();
                            System.out.println ("Database connection terminated");
                           }
                         catch (Exception c) { /* ignore close errors */ }
                        }
                     }
		  }
 	  }
        }
       

}

If anyone can help me, it would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks in advance,
- Jeff

[ibanez270dx]

I did some more research, and I have to pack all the drivers into a .jar file to run a DB applet from a web-browser? How do I do this?