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Applets and the HTML page

Applets can e.g.:

• find out the address of the HTML document that called them (Applet.getDocumentBase)
• accept parameters from the HTML page (Applet.getParameter)
• show messages in the status bar (Applet.showStatus)
• communicate with other applets (get reference to applet with AppletContext.getApplet[s]; call public methods of the applet)
• display a HTML page (AppletContext.ShowDocument)
• get information like screen resoultion

No tight integration with the HTML page, applets have their own controls