A few methods are called from the birth of an applet to its death. The applet cycle describes how these
methods are called in order and how many times.
All applets have the following four methods:
public void init();
public void start();
public void stop();
public void destroy();
They have these methods because their super class, java.applet.Applet , has these methods. (It has
others too, but for now these four methods only are taken up).
In the super class, these are simply ...
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