To make an applet, you really need to understand AWT / Swing. It is possible to write an applet using the terminal window, but it will write to a separate console in a web browser, and not the main screen. You can see this console in:
The most basic of basic applets will look something like this:
import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.applet.*; public class tknapp extends Applet { public void init() { //do one-time stuff here } }
Below is a sample applet:
If you are running Netscape, then look at your Java console!