AppletContext is lost; URL not working

Not sure I understand what your problem is.
Can you post the relevant parts of your code.

Specify a target in your showDocument() call so that the new page is opened in a different window.

None of offered comments works for me.
I am giving more details.
I start IE and load my applet - applet1.
Within this applet there is an URL link:
try {
     URL u = new URL(sURL);
     URLConnection uconn = u.openConnection();
     Object content = uconn.getContent();
     myMain.pPasswordDialog.sApplet.myAppletContext.showDocument(u, "_blank");
 }
   catch (MalformedURLException e) {}
   catch (IOException e) {}

Here a long string "myMain.pPasswordDialog....." is just a reference to an Applet class where the expression:
myAppletContext = getAppletContext();
resides.
This link works fine untill I try to switch to a different
website from the one where my applet1 is running.
It does not affect my applet1 - it runs fine (it is not
destroyed); however the URL link is not working anymore.
                 

> It does not affect my applet1 - it runs fine (it is not
destroyed);

applet1 is destroyed - i.e. it's destroy() method is called and it's context is set to null.

> however the URL link is not working anymore

Can you describe exactly how it's not working.
Are you getting any exceptions?

No, I am not getting any exception;
When I had getAppletContext().showDocument()
in that long line, I was getting NullPointerException
on AppletContext; then I replaced it with the myAppletContext (the result of the getAppletContext() in
Applet class). Now it does nothing at all; on ActionPerformed it comes to that URL link and stops.
I assume that AppletContext has changed when I leave the page; I don't know how to restore/save it. As I said at the same time the parent apllet1 is not effected; it is functioning fine.

You problem maty be related to the following:

URL u = new URL(sURL);
URLConnection uconn = u.openConnection();
Object content = uconn.getContent();
myMain.pPasswordDialog.sApplet.myAppletContext.showDocument(u, "_blank");

You don't think you need the middle two lines, you just need:  

URL u = new URL(sURL);
myMain.pPasswordDialog.sApplet.myAppletContext.showDocument(u, "_blank");

I've tried deleting these two lines.
That did not change the behaviour of the URL link;
it works as long as web page for the main applet stays;
as soon as you leave it URL link stops working.

> as soon as you leave it URL link stops working.

tha's NORMAL behaviour.
as soon as your applet is destryed it shouldn't be able to interact with the 'real world'.

Yes, it sounds like the applet reference that you're using to display the page is no longer available.

myMain.pPasswordDialog.sApplet

Is this the same applet that is currently executing, or is it a different one.
And if so, why aren't you simply using the current applet?

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- points to heyhey_ (11/07/2001 01:50AM PST)

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