I'm helping out a friend with his website and he is using Extreme Tech Weather Station to detect the outdoor weather for his blueberry farm. The HELP I am giving him is creating an applet for the website that will display these results. There already is a Java Swing GUI that utiliizes these APIs, but I cannot get it to work as an applet at all. I can get the layout of it to display on the applet, but the functionality doesn't work at all.

The way it works is that the workstation is connected via USB to some sort of HUB that is connected to a BUNCH of sensors that detect humidity, temperature, and weather stuff like that. When I run the application just as a local application, it RUNS just FINE. But when I run it as an applet, all of the buttons and controls display, but it doesn't do anything after that. The question I have is that I am wondering if this will work at all to have it run as an applet? Are there any certain limitations that Java applets have that are causing this to not work? Maybe this can help: http://www8.cs.umu.se/~jopsi/dass2/applet.html