I have a Java Applet inserted on a simple HTML page located at http://localhost:8080/index.html:
Update from @Kristian above saved my day.
I had access denied (java.net.SocketPermission
from an applet in a web application.
There had been change in our DNS, such that the IP of the load-balancer of the application server was not resolving to a name with domain. Therefore the suspected "cross-domain connection" from applet back to server was blocked. I added crossdomain.xml with
to
and checked that it is accessible with http://