From: Charlie.Lai@Eng (Charlie Lai)
Message-Id: <199803031838.KAA10848@angeles.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: Applet JDBC Support ...
To: mistry@daisy.moffitt.usf.edu (Vipul Mistry)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:38:51 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <34FC1CDE.E9C89DBB@daisy.moffitt.usf.edu> from "Vipul Mistry" at Mar 3, 98 10:08:14 am
hi,
> I am working on a Cancer Registry System that runs as an applet
> on the web and it needs to communicate with a database server other
> than the web server. It is not possible to relocate both on the same
> machine.
>
> I was going through the applet security features and how javakey
> /jar can be used to overcome the inherited security model. But, it
> seems that most of the examples are for local file reading/writing.
> Are there any links that might help me with my problem or is the
> process exactly the same? Your help would be of great use to me.
if your applet is signed and trusted (as described in the signExample at:
http://java.sun.com/security/signExample
it will be able to connect to other remote hosts.
so, yes, the process is exactly the same.
thanks,
charlie