Hi everyone,

Okay what im trying to do is make my java program connect to my local
database that is stored on my computer. The database is microsoft sql
2000 and i am using the Microsoft sql server 2000 driver for JDBC.
When i run the program i am getting these errors.

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: java.io.IOException: open HTTP
connection failed.
       at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(AppletClassLoader.java:244)
       at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(AppletClassLoader.java:39)
       at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(AppletClassLoader.java:135)
       at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
       at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClassLoader.java:132)
       at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:294)
       at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(AppletClassLoader.java:109)
       at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:250)
       at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(AppletClassLoader.java:496)
       at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:582)
       at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:511)
       at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:289)
       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:479)
load: class BookProject/AddressBook.class not found.

My connection code looks like this

private void connect() throws Exception
  {
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"CloudScape Inside Connect");
   
    try
    {
    Class.forName("com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver");
    Properties p = new Properties();
    p.put("selectMethod","cursor");
    p.put("user","sa");
    p.put("password","a1dragon");
    connection = DriverManager.getConnection
    ("jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://TOMLAP2:1433",p);
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
       JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, ex.toString());
    }
   
         
    try{
     connection.setAutoCommit( false );
     PreparedStatement s1 = connection.prepareStatement("select
'statement1'");
     PreparedStatement s2 = connection.prepareStatement("select
'statement2'");

    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, ex.toString());
    }
  }
 

If anyone could offer any help it would be much appreciated.
Thanks for the help!