Applet not getting initialized

I have a jsp page (myPage.jsp) in

D:\Tomcat\webapps\jsp-examples

here is the code of this jsp

and here is my Java applet (MyApplet.java) in D:\Tomcat\webapps\jsp-examples\WEB-INF\classes\sample

When I call my JSP page, I get the message : Loading Java applet failed.

If i right click on it, the message in the console is

load: class sample.MyApplet not found.

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sample.MyApplet

at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)

at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)

at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(Unknown Source)

at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(Unknown Source)

at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(Unknown Source)

at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(Unknown Source)

at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Caused by: java.io.IOException: open HTTP connection failed.

at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(Unknown Source)

at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)

at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

... 10 more

Can someone please tell me how to resolve this.

The servlet container will not serve anything out of WEB-INF, so the browser can't get at the class files. Put the sample directory into the jsp-examples directory, then it should work.

Thanks a lot.