> I'm using SSH port forwarding. (the interbase port is disabled by a
> packet filter from outer world) Maybe you or Roman wrote is not
> recommended to use port forwarding. Is there any reason to not to do
> that?

I think there's no problem with SSH port forwarding. :) But if you
want the JDBC driver be a part of applet (that was my suggestion,
because this is most common scenario when you need JDBC encryption),
then your admins will hate you if they need to create account/keys
for each person using applet.

Best regards,
Roman Rokytskyy