Apple WebObjects 3.5 - Manual (Page 144)

Chapter 8 Creating Client-Side Components
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destination applets are. To determine these, it inspects the visible applets on the
page and looks for some special parameters.
Figure 37. The Principal Objects Involved in Client-Side Components
SimpleAssociation objects don’t get or set values themselves; instead, they rely
on the actual client-side components to do so. This means that if you want to
use the SimpleAssociation class, you must modify the applet so that it
implements the SimpleAssociationDestination interface. This interface defines
the methods that are used to get and set values.
When You Have an Applet’s Source Code
If you write an applet, or acquire the source code for an applet, you can follow
these steps to give the applet the associative behavior it needs to be a client-side
component:
Association
AppletGroup
Controller
Java Applet
client
(browser)
server
page