What do you mean it won't have any effect on the files on the server? Why is that? I read that java applets aren't allowed to read or write to files fullstop but i can certainly read from a file so I ...

In my quest to find neato things to do with Java (a lot has changed since 1.1!) I've hit a roadblock. I've been testing stuff on a partially written applet (runs, just to do something more intelligent ...