Using Swing Timer in Applet

I start a timer in the applet init method and restart/start the timer if it is not running in the applet start method. Since the start method is invoked by anther thread, it can run before the init method is completed. That is an undesired situation. What is the better way to handle the timer in this scenario?

Thanks.

[339 byte] By [vwuvancouvera] at [2007-9-30 2:19:44]