Best way to make a main menu?

Hello guys I was wondering if you guys could help me.
Im trying to make a main menu which is displayed to the user when they load my applet.
Im using 3 JButtons on one applet.
I have 3 separate applets I want to be accessible by clicking a button on the menu.
So the user presses a button and they are displayed the required applet. I have each applet working separately but cannot get the menu I require to work.
So does anyone have any idea how to make JButtons show another applet in place of the menu?
It would be great if each applet could pass a value between each other too such as a score.
Any help would be great
Thanks
pbd2

I would call a JavaScript function from the Java applet to set the visibility to "hidden" or "visible" of the tag the corresponding applet, here's some pseudo code:
<div id="applet1">
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