prob deploying gears demo as an applet

[deepdiver]

I'm an unreconstructed C coder vintage 1990 and just starting to build a project using java and jogl - both new to me. it's a bit of a steep learning curve so I apologise in advance for dumb questions.

I have got the jogl demo sources and have suceeded in compiling the gears demo and deploying it as a jar file. It runs from a directory that contains jogl.jar and gluegen-rt.jar (as well as the dlls).
Now I'm trying to deploy that application as an applet via the GearsApplet.class, which I have placed in the same directory.
Everything compiles OK. Here's the applet tag:

<applet code="GearsApplet.class" width=600 height=400
archive="gearsApplet.jar
   slowGears.jar,
   jogl.jar,
   gluegen-rt.jar">
</applet>

slowGears.jar contains the gears demo - which runs fine as an application.
IE reports that "Applet GearsApplet notinited" and if I click in the window "Loading Java Applet Failed".

Am I failing to understand what the GearsApplet example means?

Be very grateful if someone could enlighten me!


Thanks
Chris