It would certainly be much easier if the button were a
Java button; then you could have the table listen for a button click ("Display") and present itself.
Unless HTML's made big changes and I'm obsolete on that subject now, HTML widget are not applet-aware. You'd need to go back through the server with a POST request that's triggered by clicking your button. Then, something on the server-side (a
servlet) would be invoked to update the table in the
applet. Sounds painful.
Are you sure you can't just add a button to the existing applet?
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Michael Ernest, co-author of:
The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide
