Difficult: Drag and Drop: how to get the path of the drag-source ??

I have to write an applet, after a "Drag&Drop"-Operation from a MS-Word-document to this applet, the applet is supposed to show the path of the document.
Does anyone know how to do this ?
thanks

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IMHO, it's quit opposite: many things are cut-and-paste compatible, yet I'm missing few basic explanations.
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