Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days

Week 2 at a Glance

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Day

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Java Applet Basics

129

How Applets and Applications Are Different .......................................... 130

Creating Applets ..................................................................................... 131

Major Applet Activities ...................................................................... 132

A Simple Applet................................................................................. 134

Including an Applet on a Web Page ........................................................ 136

The  Tag.......................................................................... 136

Testing the Result .............................................................................. 137

Making Java Applets Available to the Web......................................... 137

More About the  Tag ............................................................ 138

ALIGN .............................................................................................. 138

HSPACE and VSPACE ...................................................................... 140

CODE and CODEBASE .................................................................... 141

Passing Parameters to Applets ................................................................. 141

Summary ................................................................................................ 146

Q&A ...................................................................................................... 147