Datbases in Applet

We are students of computer science (BCS) at
FAST ICS
ISLAMABAD
PAKISTAN

We are working on our final project these days.
we have to complete this project in 40 days (starting 1st Aug 1999)
we want to keep some books on internet in English,Arabic and Urdu
through JAVA Languges in textual format.
We are using oracle as our database manager.
It is a three tier architecture. The GUI is a this client applet. The backend database is oracle 8. The middle tier should consist of a
server that processes the requests from the applet. You should be able to run the applet from
anywhere. The GUI consists of simple functions
like query,retrieve the data etc.

The database is a remote data base.

We've got some problems. How do you connect to a remote database
How do you go about developing the server. (sockets, RMI, URL ???)
we could not bring text of database in applet yet.
we could not find arabic text support in java yet.
we could not find Font support in java yet to bring urdu (our native
languge)on internet.

we have urdu books and urdu fonts (true type)
JAVA does not pick these fonts pleas tell us how we can use these
fonts with JAVA .

we would really appriciate if you could provide me with the source code. Please help ...
looking for kind response.

thank you

My email ID is [email protected]