Hi,
You should use the <PARAM> tags nested within the <APPLET> tags on your HTML page returned to pass the parameters (i'm assuming that you're using a JSP/Servlet to return HTML to the client with the APPLET embedded on the page). To use the PARAM tags you just specify a parameter NAME and VALUE.
From your applet you can get access to the parameter values using the java.applet.Applet.getParameter(String) method to retrieve the string VALUE's by NAME.
Hope this will help you.
Anil.
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Sun Microsystems Inc,
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