Applet creation and running in a Browser

Can someone point me to a tutorial or docs that show me how to make a small applet in Java and embed it in the browser (IE or Firefox)?

Specifically I a looking to make an applet to control from Javascript that can open a socket on the server (same computer the web page and applet will be on) and do some back and forth communications with an application that runs there.

Thanks

[398 byte] By [imok] at [2007-11-26 7:59:06]