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Brian:

Yep.  Been that way forever and is usually stated in the first five or
ten pages of any intro to Java or Applets.

If you want to handle this in Java look at Servlets or even a
Server-side Java App that runs on the Server and that brokers the
communication with the Applet.  If you have the physical access and
rights to do CGI (something most ISP's won't allow), then you could do
this.

However there's good reason why the sites that "take data and persist
them in a database on the server" don't use Java for this.  You can use
html widgets to build a much lighter form for collecting the data and
never have to worry that your client has an old browser or that they
have IE5 which doesn't install a VM by default.  Tons faster, too.

-Rich

Brian Levine wrote:
> 
> Let me get this straight.  Applets cannot write data back to the server?
> 
> What I've been trying to develop is an applet for a catalog web page that
> will read from a database, so that it will only allow the user to select an
> item if it is in stock.  Thus it would need to update the inventory table
> when a purchase was made.  Is this not possible from an applet?  Is it time
> to crack open the CGI books?
> 
> Brian Levine
> 
> rwilkman wrote in message <38A2EDA3.832D3061@inprise.com>...
> >Brian:
> >
> >InputStream and OutputStream.  But you might want to read up on Applets
> >first because it sounds like you are trying to write something that is
> >simply not allowed.
> >
> >Applets can read only from the server they came from and they can write
> >nowhere.  You can't use File based objects for this reason.
> >
> >-Rich
> >
> >Brian Levine wrote:
> >>
> >> Does pre-1.2 Java have a mechanism for reading writing FileStreams.  I'm
> >> trying to write an applet that supports fairly early browsers.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Brian Levine
> >
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