Applet-Servlet Communication

[Steve]

Hi;

I have a question about applet-servlet communication.

I have a servlet that retries data from a database in one big fat
string.  It then sends that string to the applet to be displayed.

This works fine when I send the string as a string.

It works ALMOST fine when I send string all at once as an object.
Smaller strings  make it through, but larger ones ( 165kb ) don't get
sent.

I want this to work as I think that sending a string as an entire object
is quicker, am I wrong?

The error message I get is:
=============================================================================
java.net.SocketException: Unexpected end of file from server
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(Compiled Code)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(Compiled Code)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Compiled
Code)
        at HttpMessage.sendGetMessage(HttpMessage.java:37)

=============================================================================



Here is the code that sends the info from the servlet
"sSummaryStatement" is the string I retrieve from the database with the
servlet and the string that I send back to the applet:

Thanks in advance for any insights.

Steve

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public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
throws ServletException, IOException
    {
        //What Do We Need To Do?
        sAction = req.getParameter("Action");

        if( sAction.equals("GetSumStat") == true )
        {
            // Get sGrantNo To Look Up A Summary Statement By
            sGrantNo = req.getParameter("Grant_No");
            sSummaryStatement = getSummaryStatement(sGrantNo);

            //Send Summary Statement To The Applet
            ObjectOutputStream out = new
ObjectOutputStream(res.getOutputStream());
            out.writeObject(sSummaryStatement);
        }// end if GetSumStat
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Here is the code that recieves the info in the applet:



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private String getDbDataFromServlet(Properties props)
{
     String sInfoFromDbServlet = new String();
     StringBuffer sbResult = new StringBuffer();

     try        // Getting The Servlet To Get Info For Us From The DB
     {
        // Make The URL To Call Up Our Servlet At
        //URL url = new
URL("http://softdev.nimh.nih.gov/servlet/SummaryStatementManagerServlet");


        // Create An HttpMessage Obj
        HttpMessage msg = new HttpMessage(url);


       //Send a GET to the servlet, passing "props" as a query string,
       //Get the RESPONSE as an ObjectInputStream

       InputStream in = msg.sendGetMessage(props);
       ObjectInputStream result  = new ObjectInputStream(in);
       Object obj                = result.readObject();
       sInfoFromDbServlet        = (String)obj;

       return sInfoFromDbServlet;
    }// end try
    catch ( Exception e )
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return " From The Applet: No Information Retrieved From The Servlet";
    }// end catch

}//end function getDbDataFromServlet()

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Thanks in advance!


Steve
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