APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING APPLICATION OUTPUT IN AN HTML DOCUMENT

A method for displaying an executing application in an HTML page includes the steps of receiving an indication that execution of an application should begin, determining the parameters of a window in which the executing application will be displayed, creating a communication channel to the HTML page using the determined window parameters, and displaying the output of the application, which is executing on a server, in the window via the communications channel. A related apparatus includes a parameter handler and a network executive. The parameter handler determines the parameters of the application window and passes the parameters to a network executive. The network executive uses the parameters to begin execution of the desired applications program on a server and causes the output of the program to be displayed in the window.