OK, I've got some really dumb applet questions.....



Done alot of back end processing on Java for a couple of years but now need to write some applets and am having problems.



I want to include javax.swing components (including JApplet) in my applet but when I run them my browser just says sorry, class javax.swing.JApplet not found, this will obviously be the same for all my other swing components.



As usual, the applet runs fine in my IDE appletviewer.



Just about every book I've read on this makes no mention of having to supply additional classes when creating your archive, are they all assuming something else has taken place that I don't know about.



Is it the case that I have to embed an html object tag to dowload the java plugins from Sun? If this is true, why have I never had to do this before? I've been to web sites that have movie playing applets and I've never been prompted to download anything.



Can someone please explain to me how the whole applet class loader thing works as it's driving me nuts.



Thanks



Philip