How can you display a particular web page from an applet?

The following code snippet shows you how to achieve that using showPage method is capable of displaying any URL passed to it.

import java.net.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;

public class TestApplet extends Applet
{
  // Applet code goes here

  // Show a page
  public void showPage ( String showPage)
  {
      URL url = null;

      // Create a URL object
      try
      {
          url = new URL ( showPage );
      }
      catch (MalformedURLException e)
      {
          // Invalid URL
      }
       
      // Show URL
      if (url != null)
      {
          getAppletContext().showDocument (url);
      }

  }
}