Embedding applets in Swing GUI?

Question

I'm pretty new to developing with Swing.
I want to know what I would need to do in order to embed an applet inside a Swing GUI (if this is possible). I've looked around, but can't seem to find anything with an answer to my question.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

import javax.swing.*;
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.Label;
/** Simplistic example of putting an Applet in a JFrame. */
public class AppletInSwingGui extends Applet {
  public void init() {
    add( new Label("I am an applet!") );
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    final AppletInSwingGui applet = new AppletInSwingGui();
    // very important!
    applet.init();
    Runnable r = new Runnable() {
      public void run() {
        JFrame f = new JFrame();
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.getContentPane().add( applet );
        f.pack();
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setVisible(true);
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(r);
}Note that if the applet uses the functionality of the AppletContext, the programmer needs to implement it. Some of the Applet specific methods (like getDocumentBase() and getCodeBase()) are also a bit tricky.
Edited by: AndrewThompson64 on May 20, 2008 12:37 PM