I've come across that thread during my quest to correct the problem, but it doesn't seem to provide a concrete answer... Just in case I'll elaborate on my problem... The applet (which runs fine through applet viewer/browers from local drives and off the net) is packaged into the war archive file. Upon opening the war file, the applet class file is there: cews.war/applet.class Going to localhost/cewslite/applet.class lets me download the class file no problem. But any applet tag that attempts to access the file gives me the error seen above. oh and thanks for the replay jaikiran, I appreciate the help View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4123518#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...