Netbeans web projects and Applets

• To add an applet to a Netbeans  web project use the following procedure.
• Create your applet in a separate project. when you are done testing, use the build function to create the jar file.
• Switch to your web project, 
  
• select the project and right click to open the properties
  
•  select packaging under the Build item
• press the "add jar/folder"
• then browse to the jar file you created in the applet project (under the applet projects' dist folder)
• select the jar file.
• this adds the jar to your web project.
  
• On your web page, you can reference the applet with the applet tag, the ARCHIVE parameter should be the jar name you added in the previous line.
  
• Alternatively, you can create your applet in a separate project, then perform the build operation to create a jar file.  Copy this jar file into the web folder of your web application project.