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Running selenium webdrivers from applet in HTML

I need to call Selenium from the client side, so I'm trying to run Selenium from a Java applet on a static HTML page.

I am using firefox 3.6.12 in a SUSE Linux environment. The HTML page looks like this:

<HTML> 
<HEAD> 
</HEAD> 
<BODY> 
<APPLET ALIGN="CENTER" CODE="SeleniumTest.class" WIDTH="800" 
HEIGHT="500" archive="/home/******/Selenium/selenium-2.20.0/selenium- 
server-standalone-2.20.0.jar,/home/******/Selenium/selenium-2.20.0/ 
selenium-java-2.20.0.jar,/home/*******/Selenium/selenium-2.20.0/ 
selenium-firefox-driver-2.0a5.jar" ></APPLET> 
</BODY> 
</HTML>

The applet was downloaded and informational instructions were printed. But during the creation of the webdriver, I get the following exception in the Java Console and it stops.

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-8" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
Could not initialize class 
org.openqa.selenium.firefox.internal.Executable 
        at 
org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxBinary.<init>(FirefoxBinary.java: 
56) 
        at 
org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxBinary.<init>(FirefoxBinary.java: 
52) 
        at 
org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java: 
84) 
        at SeleniumTest.getWebDriver(SeleniumTest.java:36) 
        at SeleniumTest.runTest(SeleniumTest.java:85) 
        at SeleniumTest.paint(SeleniumTest.java:23) 
        at sun.awt.RepaintArea.paintComponent(Unknown Source) 
        at sun.awt.X11.XRepaintArea.paintComponent(Unknown Source) 
        at sun.awt.RepaintArea.paint(Unknown Source) 
        at sun.awt.X11.XComponentPeer.handleEvent(Unknown Source) 
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) 
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) 
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) 
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) 
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown 
Source) 
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source) 
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown 
Source) 
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source) 
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source) 
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

I added the 'selenium-firefox-driver-2.0a5.jar' to my 'archive' applet declaration attribute in HTML.

Is the applet capable of performing such operations? (Since it uses a JVM, I think it should be)

What else should I do to solve this problem?

Is there any work to run selenium from a browser other than using java applets?

PS: Applet eclipse, . , .

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