How does Eclipse run .java files as applets?

Question

I've been trying to run a simple applet that I created from the command line. I tried just doing:

C:\java Applet 

It obviously didn't work; however, I noticed that Eclipse lets me run the applet if I select the class and select run as java applet. How does Eclipse do this?

Answer 1

you need to use appletviewer command from the command line to run an Applet