Applet cannot find client.class?

[Josh Rodrigues]

I got everything to work so far for my loader jar file which loads another jar file name ERclient.jar. I'm having trouble when running the ERclient.jar. I'm getting a ClassNotFoundException at this line:

return super.findSystemClass(str);

The whole class for the PreLoader class is as so:

import java.util.Hashtable;

public final class PreLoader extends ClassLoader {

	Hashtable hash = new Hashtable();
	Bot bot = new Bot();

	public final synchronized Class load(String str, boolean flag) throws java.lang.ClassNotFoundException {
		try {
			Class load = (Class)hash.get(str);
			if (load != null) {
				return load;
			}
			byte[] buf = bot.remove(str);
			if (null == buf) {
				return super.findSystemClass(str);
			}
			load = defineClass(str, buf, 0, buf.length, Class.forName("loader").getProtectionDomain());
			if (flag){
				resolveClass(load);
			}
			hash.put(str, load);
			return load;
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		return super.findSystemClass(str);
	}
}

Here's chunk of code to get the main class called client:

PreLoader loader = new PreLoader();
if (loader != null) {
	Class load = loader.load("client", true);
	JApplet applet = (JApplet) load.newInstance();
} else {
	setString(100, "Loader is null! Please fix this immediately!");
}

I'm not sure why I'm getting this error when it should be searching everywhere for the class file; as long as it's in the same directory, right? If so, shouldn't it look in the JAR file named ERclient.jar?