AWT permission using Robot

[Nemisis]

I am trying to capture an area of the screen in an applet (using a robot object) so that I can store it in a BufferedImage and then write it to a file.

I am getting the following message when trying to capture the screen.

&quot;access denied <java.awt.AWTPermission createRobot>&quot;

please can you help or possibly suggest another way of capturing the screen into a BufferedImage.