To allow your applets to operate in different environments, it’s quite handy to be able to pass certain parameters to them at runtime. When embedding an applet in a HTML page, you can use the PARAM tag (as part of an APPLET) for this purpose. For example:
You can then retrieve the values within your applet like this:
public class ParamTest { public static void main(String argv[]) { System.out.println("The value of 'foo' is: " + getParameter("foo")); }}