This is an example of manipulating urls. it is supposed to display a list of urls and when i select one of them, it displays this site. but the list appears empty when i run the applet. plz don't tell me that the links u put in the html document are invalid, no i used valid links but i can't put links here as i 'm a new member.:(


HTML document to load SiteSelector applet.
Java Code: 
<html>
  <title>Site Selector</title>
  <body>
     <applet code = "SiteSelector.class" width = "300" height = "75">
        <param name = "title0" value = "Java Home Page">              
        <param name = "location0" value = "valid link">     
        <param name = "title1" value = "Deitel">                      
        <param name = "location1" value = "valid link">   
        <param name = "title2" value = "JGuru">                       
        <param name = "location2" value = "valid link">    
        <param name = "title3" value = "JavaWorld">                   
        <param name = "location3" value = "valid link">
     </applet>
  </body>
  </html>

Loading a document from a URL into a browser
Java Code: 
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
  import java.net.URL;
  import java.util.HashMap;
  import java.util.ArrayList;
  import java.awt.BorderLayout;
  import java.applet.AppletContext;
  import javax.swing.JApplet;
  import javax.swing.JLabel;
  import javax.swing.JList;
  import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.event.ListSelectionEvent;
  import javax.swing.event.ListSelectionListener;

  public class SiteSelector extends JApplet
  {
     private HashMap< Object, URL > sites; // site names and URLs
     private ArrayList< String > siteNames; // site names
     private JList siteChooser; // list of sites to choose from

     // read HTML parameters and set up GUI
     public void init()
     {
        sites = new HashMap< Object, URL >(); // create HashMap
        siteNames = new ArrayList< String >(); // create ArrayList

        // obtain parameters from HTML document
        getSitesFromHTMLParameters();

        // create GUI components and layout interface
        add( new JLabel( "Choose a site to browse" ), BorderLayout.NORTH );

        siteChooser = new JList( siteNames.toArray() ); // populate JList
        siteChooser.addListSelectionListener(
           new ListSelectionListener() // anonymous inner class
           {
              // go to site user selected
              public void valueChanged( ListSelectionEvent event )
              {
                 // get selected site name
                 Object object = siteChooser.getSelectedValue();

                 // use site name to locate corresponding URL
                 URL newDocument = sites.get( object );

                 // get applet container
                 AppletContext browser = getAppletContext();

                 // tell applet container to change pages
                 browser.showDocument( newDocument );
              } // end method valueChanged
           } // end anonymous inner class
        ); // end call to addListSelectionListener

        add( new JScrollPane( siteChooser ), BorderLayout.CENTER );
     } // end method init

     // obtain parameters from HTML document
     private void getSitesFromHTMLParameters()
     {
        String title; // site title
        String location; // location of site
        URL url; // URL of location
        int counter = 0; // count number of sites

        title = getParameter( "title" + counter ); // get first site title

        // loop until no more parameters in HTML document
        while ( title != null )
        {
           // obtain site location
           location = getParameter( "location" + counter );
           try // place title/URL in HashMap and title in ArrayList
           {
              url = new URL( location ); // convert location to URL
              sites.put( title, url ); // put title/URL in HashMap
              siteNames.add( title ); // put title in ArrayList
           } // end try
           catch ( MalformedURLException urlException )
           {
              urlException.printStackTrace();
           } // end catch

           counter++;
           title = getParameter( "title" + counter ); // get next site title
        } // end while
     } // end method getSitesFromHTMLParameters
  } // end class SiteSelector