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Java Network Programming, Second Edition
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Java Network Programming, Second Edition

by Elliotte Rusty Harold
August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
760 pages
21h
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 9. The Network Methods of java.applet.Applet

Undoubtedly you’re familiar with applets, Java programs that can be embedded on a web page and run in a secure environment within a browser. All applets extend the java.applet.Applet class, which includes a number of methods that perform network-related operations. These methods allow an applet to find out where it came from, download images and sounds from a web server, and track the progress of the download. This chapter discusses the interaction between applets and the network. It doesn’t provide an introduction to the Applet class as a whole; for that, see an introductory book such as Niemeyer and Peck’s Learning Java (O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., 2000).

Using java.applet.Applet to Download Data

The methods of the Applet class discussed in this section are really just thin veneers over equivalent methods in the java.applet.AppletStub and java.applet.AppletContext interfaces. These interfaces describe services that the web browser or applet viewer provides to applets. The exact classes that implement these interfaces are undocumented and vary from implementation to implementation. Applets that you instantiate yourself (for example, an applet that also runs as an application by supplying a main( ) method that calls the applet’s init( ) and start( ) methods) will generally have null AppletStub and AppletContext members. Therefore, if you try to use these methods in such an applet, a NullPointerException will be thrown.

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