I am unable to fetch values from param of Applet, the code at client is as under:- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN'> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> Connect to the Chat application</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <applet code='Client' archive='myJar.jar, windows.jar, motif.jar, swingall.jar, swing.jar, multi.jar' width=400 height=400 codebase='../applet'> <param name=clientName value=Laxmi> <param name=courseId value=C1> </applet> </BODY> </HTML> in Client class I am not getting values of param name and courseId using :- clientName = getParameter("clientName") ; courseId = getParameter("courseId") ;