The jsp is going to execute on the server side. All the beans and jsp's and servlets etc are going to be on the "server" side.

The Applet is going to execute on the client side in the client browser. Therefore, you do not have ready access to the "beans/objects" on the server side.

You can create a jar file just for your Applet that contains the classes you need from the server side. If you use Ant to build your web-application, you can re-build the jar file every time the bean changes, so the client is sure to get the correct class.

However, this does not give you access to "Objects" that exist on the server side. If you execute a jsp and a bean is in that JSP, it does not give you access to the information in that bean.

For that, you have to create some kind of protocol to allow the Applet to talk to the server and get that info through a connection to the server.

But that's another story...

Stephen McConnell