1st let me say I know very little about java, but I do understand the
basics..

Now here's my problem.  I was given a website to take over last year
that has a applet that connects to an Oracle DB.  That site was
running on an old Sun box with Oracle on the same box.

To make a long story short, I was tasked with rewritting all the old
perl scripts on the Unix box to coldfusion on a Windows box and now
I'm stuck.

I'm stuck because of this Java Applet.  On the old box, it connected
to oracle.  On this new box running windows 2003, I have to get it to
connect to MS SQL 2000.  I did some reading on JDBC, but from what I
can read in the old perl code, I can't figure out how the Applet
connected to the oracle DB.  I decompressed the JAR file and I stall
can't tell how it was connecting because I don't see any reference to
JDBC.  I've also checked with the admin on the Windows server I'm now
on and he says he knows nothing about JDBC.

Can anyone help me?  What should I be looking for in the decompressed
JAR file and is it possible I can make a connection to SQL without
JDBC?

Thanks!!