run Java applet with <param> from HTML

From:
neiderer@osprey.arl.army.mil (Andrew Neiderer )
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
Date:
Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:37:40 GMT
Message-ID:
<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

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