Unfortunately, Sun used some method names for their own internal functions that all the other windowing systems used for commonly used public functions
. I went through a world of grief over that before I finally broke down and bought a decent book on the topic.
Applets are not allowed to resize themselves for several reasons. One of which is that they're not expected to know a whole lot about the overall environment of the windows they live in or what else may be sharing it.
You can get around the problem if you set up a javascript in the web page that is used to get to the actual page containing the applet. Just use the javascript to get the window's current dimensions and pass them to the server and use them to build the applet invocation tags.
It's not a perfect solution, since it can't track window resizing, but it's about as good as you can do.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
