hybrid : Java Glossary

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hybrid

A hybrid aka switch hitter is an Applet or JApplet that has had some code added to it so that it can also be run from the command line as an application. For AWT (Advanced Windowing Toolkit) Applets the code looks something like this: For Swing JApplets the code looks something like this: That code is quite crude. It will not do such things as:

Simulate the getParameter method to get at the Applet parameters. When it is running as an application there is no HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). How can you fake the parameters?
Adjust the coordinate system so part of the Applet is not hidden under the Frame menu bar. Layout managers deal with this automatically, but if you do absolute positioning, you have to compensate manually.
It does not simulate getAppletContext. Code defensively to deal with a null return.

The easiest way to deal with these problems is to use two Applet constructors, one the usual default constructor and one that passes the param information in taken from the command line. Inside you can keep track of which mode you are running in with a Boolean you set in the constructor. getParameter( favouriteColour ) will return the String orange.

Applet
application
JApplet

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