The tag in the web page will look like:

<applet code="WrapperApplet.class" codebase =   "../../Code/Java/Wrappers/Basic/" width=100 height=50>
  <param name="param1" value="1234">
  <param name="param2" value="true">
</applet>

public class WrapperApplet extends java.applet.Applet
{
  public void init () {
    //Create an instance of the Test class
    Test test = new Test ();

    // First parameter is an integer string
    String param1= getParameter ("param1");
    // Use a method in the Integer wrapper to convert the
    // string to an int type value.
    int val1 = Integer.parseInt (param1);

    // Second parameter is a boolean string.
    String param2 = getParameter ("param2");

    // Use the methods in the Boolean wrapper class
    // to convert the "true" or "false" strings to
    // boolean values in 2 steps:
    Boolean b = Boolean.valueOf (param2);
    boolean flag = b.booleanValue ();

    // Java 5.0 added the parseBoolean() method
    // so you can now do this in one step:
    //
    //   boolean flag = b.parseBoolean(param2);

    // Now that you have the two parameters converted
    // to their respective primitive type values, you
    // could, for example, use the boolean as a flag
    // to select between 2 different initialization methods
    // and pass the integer value to either.
    if (flag)
        test.aMethod (val1);
    else
        test.bMethod (val1);
  }

  // Paint message in Applet window.
  public void paint (java.awt.Graphics g) {
     g.drawString ("WrapperApplet", 20, 20);
  }
}

// Use Test to examine various aspects of class design
class Test
{
  void aMethod (int i) {
    // Use the explicit String method to convert
    // an int to a String object.
    String iStr = String.valueOf (i);

    System.out.println (iStr + " in aMethod");
    System.out.println ();
  }

  void bMethod (int i) {
    String iStr = String.valueOf (i);
    System.out.println (iStr + " in bMethod");
    System.out.println ();
  }
}

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