How code that is commented work?

[Mr Anil Kumar Pandey]

look the code
import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class MyApplet extends Applet{
// all the required methods implemented
}
/*
<applet code="MyApplet" width=400 height = 500>
</applet>

*/

compile command : javac MyApplet.java
execute command : appletviewer MyApplet.java

if the commented code present then window of size 400*500 sit on the desktop otherwise no window is seen
how this commented code is working please explain
thanks in advance

[Sunny Bhandari]

You commented the code just for demonstrating right? as there is no such kind of comments in HTML.

If you remove the commented code from HTML page then the applet is not embedded into your web page...

[Mr Anil Kumar Pandey]

sir how we are able to use classname.java for execution purpose

[Sunny Bhandari]

pandey sahib,

ask questions without any hesitation and write question more clearly....

[Mr Anil Kumar Pandey]

Sunny Bhandari wrote:pandey sahib,

ask questions without any hesitation and write question more clearly....

how appletviewer Abc.java command works in the case of an Applet
for execution purpose

[Henry Wong]

Mr Anil Kumar Pandey wrote:how appletviewer Abc.java command works in the case of an Applet
for execution purpose

If I had to speculate, I say it's a bug, or it should be... Applet tags are part of HTMLs, so I guess we all assumed that appletviewer takes a html file.

If this works (which I didn't test -- taking your word on this), then I say the programmers took a short cut, and simply extracted the Applet tags, without any regard of whether it is a valid html file or not.

Henry

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Personally I think this is an great thing -- very convenient for little one-off demos. It's not so much that the appletviewer implementers took a shortcut -- it's that browsers in general are obliged to accept grievously malformed HTML. I am sure the same thing would work in Firefox, although you might have to rename the file to *.html .

[Ulf Dittmer]

It is quite handy - saves you from having to keep an extra HTML file just for the APPLET tag: AppletViewer ignores any HTML that is not relevant to launching an applet.