How to open a link in a new window using Applet in Java

Problem Description

How to open a link in a new window using Applet?

Solution

Following example demonstrates how to go open a particular webpage from an applet in a new window using showDocument() with second argument as "_blank".

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class testURL_NewWindow extends Applet implements ActionListener {
   public void init() { 
      String link_Text = "google";
      Button b = new Button(link_Text);
      b.addActionListener(this);
      add(b);
   }
   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) { 
      Button source = (Button)ae.getSource();
      String link = "http://www."+source.getLabel()+".com";
      
      try {
         AppletContext a = getAppletContext();
         URL url = new URL(link);
         a.showDocument(url,"_blank");
      } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
         System.out.println(e.getMessage());
      }
   }
}

Result

The above code sample will produce the following result in a java enabled web browser.

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