Called when the applet is stopped . It's a chance to the applet to stop running. It's the last chance of applet to release any resources its holding. Then the applet goes through the life cycle of initialization , starting , etc. Writing the HTML code for applet.
Lets consider a simple example.
Take a look at the code for the applet. My first applet. The message showing the life cycle. The first thing we are doing here is to initialize a StringBuffer to hold the life cycle of the applet. Next, we are retriving the font from the applet's initialization parameter.