Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=107008 Created: Jul 20, 2000 Modified: 2000-09-14 08:37:10.99 Author: John Zukowski (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=7) Question originally posed by venkatram vissapragada (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=99385 In general, applets loaded over the net are prevented from accessing files on the client machine, and from making network connections except to the host originating the applet. In addition, applets loaded over the network are prevented from starting other programs on the client. Applets loaded over the network are also not allowed to load libraries, or to define native method calls, providing accessing to the underlying computer. On the other hand, trusted applets can be permitted to do all that. The trust model in Java allows you to enable only certain operations, so it is possible that you enable network connections to/from anywhere but don’t permit access to the local file system. How to enable trusting an ap