Unable to use Java Applet with Safari

I'm new to the Mac and so may have missed something obvious.

I have been trying to run a java applet in Safari but none of the applet functions seem to work. I have the same problem running Safari on Windows. When I run the applet in Firefox (Mac OS X and Windows) or IE then everything works fine.

I suspect that it may have something to do with the way that I am embedding the applet. I've looked at other posts and tried the various ways that are suggested but nothing seems to work. I will also post this question on the Java Forums.

Currently, the applet is embedded as follows:

<embed type="application/x-java-applet;version=1.6"
archive="/JavaTestApplet.jar"
code="JavaTestAppletPackage.JavaTestApplet.class"
name="JavaTestApplet"
id="JavaTestApplet"
width="0"
height="0"
preview="false"
showprinterdialog="false"
debug="false" />
</embed>

I do get the following java.net.MalformedURLException exception in the java console but I'm not sure whether this is related:

java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol:
at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin.liveconnect.SecureInvocation.checkLiveConnectCaller(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin.liveconnect.SecureInvocation.access$000(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin.liveconnect.SecureInvocation$2.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.plugin.liveconnect.SecureInvocation.CallMethod(Unknown Source)

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!