Here is the basic premise:

I have a class Temp that extends a class Election that extends JApplet.
What I want to do is make use of JApplets getAppletContext().showDocument
functionality, so that I can open a URL in the webrowser that Election
resides in.  However, when I attempt to implement this, I get a
NullPointerException indicating that no value exists for getAppletContext().

Here is the relevant code:

class TempResult extends Election{
   String url;
   public TempResult(String url) {
    this.url = url;
      }

   public void displayResult() {
    try {
       super.getAppletContext().showDocument(new URL(this.url), "_blank");
    }
    catch (Exception e) {
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, e);
    }

       }
   }

Any thoughts?  Your help is appreciated!