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The appletViewer doesn't have as stringent security as Netscape.
To access system variables you need to call Netscapes's Capabilities API.
Take a link at: http://developer.netscape.com/library/examples/index.html

Marc Kenig wrote:
> 
> I'm using RmiJdbc to go from the "pre-release" Netscape Java 1.1 browser
> 
> (Communicator 4.02J2) on a Sparc (Solaris 2.5.1) to an RmiJdbc server
> also on Solaris. (I connect to a Harmonia database)
> 
> The application works just fine from appletviewer.
> In Netscape, however, I get the following Security Exception error:
> checkpropsaccess.key/UniversalProeprtyRead
> (see full log, below). Has anybody else encountered this? Does anybody
> have any
> idea what the matter could be? And, of course, most importantly, a
> workaround? (Yes, I realize I'm using a ''pre-release'' of
> Netscape Communicator, and yes, I'm going to rattle their cages and no,
> it's not on any of their FAQs or release notes).
> 
> But I thought I'd ask and see if anybody has run into this particular
> issue?
> 
> Marc Kenig
> 
> -----------Begin Java Console log:
> 
> Netscape Communications Corporation -- Java 1.1.2
> Type '?' for options.
> # Security Exception: checkpropsaccess.key
> url = jdbc:rmi://sunusbt/jdbc:harmonia:local:SUNPO;memtemp=true
> info = {}
> RMI_ADDRESS = //sunusbt/RmiJdbcServer
> JDBC_URL = jdbc:harmonia:local:SUNPO;memtemp=true
> # Security Exception: checkpropsaccess.key
> java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError:
> netscape.security.AppletSecurityException: security.checkpropsaccess.key
> 
> #  UniversalPropertyRead privilege not enabled: Reading information
> stored in your computer, such as your user name
>   at java.rmi.Naming.getRegistry(Naming.java:154)
>   at java.rmi.Naming.lookup(Naming.java:55)
>   at RmiJdbc.RJConnection.<init>(RJConnection.java:41)
>   at RmiJdbc.RJDriver.connect(RJDriver.java:125)
>   at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:91)
>   at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:149)
>   at SunPO.MainView.init(MainView.java:159)
> * at
> netscape.applet.DerivedAppletFrame$InitAppletEvent.dispatch(DerivedAppletFrame.java:547)
> 
>   at
> java.awt.EventDispatchThread$EventPump.dispatchEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:71)
> 
>   at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:121)
>   at
> netscape.applet.DerivedAppletFrame$AppletEventDispatchThread.run(DerivedAppletFrame.java:930)