Java SE (Java Platform, Standard Edition)

Hello Everyone,

I have written an applet for a website and I am trying to add the applet to the website. When I made a dummy html file on my machine the Applet opened in all the browsers. When i did the same on the server, it gave me the following error when I tried to open the webpage.

java.lang.ClassFormatError: Truncated class file
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClassLoader.java:177)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(AppletClassLoader.java:119)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(AppletClassLoader.java:605)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:723)
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer.java:1861)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:652)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:326)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)

The server does not have JRE installed on it and I am trying to load the applet using a JAR Archive. Is this failing because of no JRE on the server? I even tried giving the codebase as a folder which contained all the class files in it. This give me the following error:

java.lang.ClassFormatError: Incompatible magic value 1008813135 in class file applet
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClassLoader.java:177)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(AppletClassLoader.java:119)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(AppletClassLoader.java:605)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:723)
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer.java:1861)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:652)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:326)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)


As I said both solutions work on my local machine (Mac OS X 10.4.11).

Please help
Steve