I am trying to build an applet that can open a serial port and communicate with the same. I have used rxtxcomm.jar for the serial communications. I have an applet built that
Just had the same problem.
Please make sure that the first call to RXTX library is in doPrivileged block.
If it will try to load library before privileged block - it will fail with this error.
Some additional info:
http://hacky.typepad.com/blog/2009/05/using-rxtxcomm-in-applets.html