JSP:Plugin and naming an applet

Question

Howdy,
I am presently having good success with the jsp:plugin tag starting my applet.
But, I can not seem to give the applet an ID or NAME in the <object> or <embed> tag.
This is needed, as I am attempting to access the applet from javascript in the html page.
my jsp:plugin tag looks like this:
<jsp:plugin type="applet"
          code="Pi_saa/Plugin"
          codebase="/lms1/classes"
          name="AACPlugin"
          archive="/lms1/classes/Plugin.jar"
          height="100" width="100">
<jsp:params>
<jsp:param name="org.omg.CORBA.ORBSingletonClass" value="org.jacorb.orb.ORBSingleton"/>
<jsp:param name="org.omg.CORBA.ORBClass" value="org.jacorb.orb.ORB"/>
<jsp:param name="JacorbProxyServerURL"
value="http://localhost:8080/lms1/classes/aaclms.ior"/>
<jsp:param name="MAYSCRIPT" value="TRUE"/>
</jsp:params>          
<jsp:fallback>Oops! Cannot load AAC LMS Plugin</jsp:fallback>
     </jsp:plugin>
The resulting html (netscape) looks like this:
<OBJECT classid="clsid:8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93" width="100" height="100" codebase="http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.2.2/jinstall-1_2_2-win.cab#Version=1,2,2,0">
<PARAM name="java_code" value="Pi_saa/Plugin">
<PARAM name="java_codebase" value="/lms1/classes">
<PARAM name="java_archive" value="/lms1/classes/Plugin.jar">
<PARAM name="type" value="application/x-java-applet;">
<PARAM name="org.omg.CORBA.ORBClass" value="org.jacorb.orb.ORB">
<PARAM name="org.omg.CORBA.ORBSingletonClass" value="org.jacorb.orb.ORBSingleton">
<PARAM name="JacorbProxyServerURL" value="http://localhost:8080/lms1/classes/aaclms.ior">
<PARAM name="MAYSCRIPT" value="TRUE">
<COMMENT>
<EMBED type="application/x-java-applet" width="100" height="100" pluginspage="http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/" java_code="Pi_saa/Plugin" java_codebase="/lms1/classes" java_archive="/lms1/classes/Plugin.jar" org.omg.CORBA.ORBClass="org.jacorb.orb.ORB"
org.omg.CORBA.ORBSingletonClass="org.jacorb.orb.ORBSingleton"
JacorbProxyServerURL="http://localhost:8080/lms1/classes/aaclms.ior"
MAYSCRIPT="TRUE"
>
<NOEMBED>
</COMMENT>
Oops! Cannot load AAC LMS Plugin
</NOEMBED></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
If you fight your way through this, you can see that there is no ID or NAME for these tags. That means I cannot access the applet from javascript.
Can anyone give me some help?
Thanks
Mark

Answer 1

Cant you just use
document.applets[0]
if you have just an applet in your page....
You can either use the name or an index as u do for any document property