Opening webpage from Applet

Could you please let me know How I can open a webpage suppose: http://www.javaranch.com from an applet, I have been developing? I want to do it with the Click of a button. Please give an example.

I am going to move this to the Applet forum as you will probably get a better response.
Bill

Ananda,
Here is an example:

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.net.*;
public class OpenPage extends Applet
{
    Button goToJR;
    public void init()
    {
        goToJR = new Button("Go to the JavaRanch");
        goToJR.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae){
                linkTo("http://www.javaranch.com");
            }
        });
        add(goToJR);
    }
    /**
      *  Method allows us to jump to other web pages.
      *
      *  @param String representing the URL of the page to which we
      *         want to jump.
      *
      *  @return True if we succeeded in jumping to the other page,
      *          otherwise, false.
      */
    private boolean linkTo(String theURLString)
    {
        try
        {
            URL theURL = new URL(theURLString);
            getAppletContext().showDocument(theURL, "_top");
        }
        catch(MalformedURLException e)
        {
            System.out.println("Bad URL:  " + theURLString + "\n");
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }
}

Hope this helps.
Stephanie
[This message has been edited by Stephanie Grasson (edited February 28, 2001).]

and the HTML page which accesses this applet is here....
enjoy.....
ps: Load this page in the browser and then click the button.
It doesn't work from an appletviewer, for obvious reasons
namely - no Context. Am I right?
regds.

- satya

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Run OpenPageApplet</title>
<script language="JavaScript">

</script>
</head>
<body BGCOLOR="#ffffff" LINK="#000099">
<font size="-1">
<h2>
Run OpenPageApplet
</h2>
<blockquote>


<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"></SCRIPT>
<COMMENT><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1"></SCRIPT></COMMENT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"></SCRIPT>
<APPLET CODE = "OpenPage.class" CODEBASE = "." WIDTH = 400 HEIGHT = 50 ></XMP>
<PARAM NAME = CODE VALUE = "OpenPage.class" >
<PARAM NAME = CODEBASE VALUE = "." >

<PARAM NAME="type" VALUE="application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.2">
</APPLET>
</NOEMBED></EMBED></OBJECT>

<!--
<APPLET  CODE = "OpenPage.class" CODEBASE = "." WIDTH = 400 HEIGHT = 50 >

</APPLET>
-->

</body>
</html>

[This message has been edited by Madhav Lakkapragada (edited February 28, 2001).]

While we don't need such a complex html script, I just
used (plagiarisim, if you want to call it that) the
Sun's HelloWorld example and replaced the .class file.
Laziness pays now!
regds.

- satya

Thanks all,
That's great. I almost became frustated little frustated. I couldn't find it anywhere, may be I don't know where to look.
Thanks again.
- Ananda