Lifecycle of Applet

Applet is a piece of program in which runs on JAVA enabled browsers.

LifeCycle of Applet:

• init()  is called only once  in lifecycle of applet during creation.
• destroy() is called only once in applet lifecycle during disposal of applet.
• whenever applet gots focus(active) paint() is called.
• whenever applet is minimized stop() is called.
• whenever applet is maximized start() & paint() is called.
• start(), stop() & paint(Graphics g) can be called many times in applet lifecycle.

Example :

package com.shivasoft.applet;

import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.Graphics;

public class AppletLifecycle extends Applet
{
  public void init()
  {
      System.out.println("Init State");
  }

  public void start()
  {
      System.out.println("Start State");
  }

  public void paint(Graphics g)
  {
      System.out.println("Paint State");
   }

   public void stop()
   {
        System.out.println("Stop State");
   }

   public void destroy()
   {
        System.out.println("Destroy State");
    }
}