AccessControlException - Reading from a file on the server
I'm writing an applet that needs to read data from a file on the same web server as the applet. In this case, both the applet class and the file exist in the same .jar file on the server. I'mnot attempting to read or write to a file on alocal machine, nor am I trying to write to a file on the server.
When I attempt to run the applet on my machine or from the web, the applet loads, but fails to read the file. The Java Console dsisplays the following message:
Error: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.io.FilePermission ColorMesh1.3dm read)
The code that's accessing the file looks like this:
dataFile =new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
Where the argument "fileName" is the name of the file to be read (ColorMesh1.3dm in this case).
All the resources I've been able to find seem to indicate that reading from a file on the host machine doesn't require file permissions or a security certificate. Is this assumption incorrect, or am I doing something wrong? Does it have something to do with paths?
