How to goto a link using Applet in Java

Problem Description

How to goto a link using Applet?

Solution

Following example demonstrates how to go to a particular webpage from an applet using showDocument() method of AppletContext class.

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

public class tesURL extends Applet implements ActionListener {
   public void init() {
      String link = "yahoo";
      Button b = new Button(link);
      b.addActionListener(this);
      add(b);
   }
   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
      Button src = (Button)ae.getSource();
      String link = "http://www."+src.getLabel()+".com";
      
      try {
         AppletContext a = getAppletContext();
         URL u = new URL(link);
         a.showDocument(u,"_self");
      } catch (MalformedURLException e){
         System.out.println(e.getMessage());
      }
   }
}

Result

The above code sample will produce the following result in a java enabled web browser.

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