Well the object passing from applet to servlet has now worked fine. It was nothing to do with the URLConnection, it was just my still poor knowledge of basic Java that let me down, just a casting issue as it turned out. Told you I was being impatient! However, I have Jasons new book and okay I got to chapter 4, and found it all beautifully written and understandable. Then I thought, I'll get stuck into the servlet side of the game project I'm doing, so I skipped 6 chapters and tried to make head or tale of the applet-servlet chapter. Here in lies my problem maybe (the skipping that is). But I don't think so. I was confronted by lots of support classes, that just tee'd me right off! I just wanted to pass an object, I thought that's got to be simple, or on the otherhand impossible, I don't understand what the support classes do. And now I've managed it without them in a few lines of code, i'm even more bewildered by them. Are they there for maximum compatability with other browsers? There existence does not seem to be explained well. Personally (And my attitude is probably very wrong) I don't like to see support classes in text books. I feel like they are hidden magic and I'm only getting half the story, only for it to haunt me in the future. This is probably irrational as I have no problem with Sun's API's So now I feel I have all the info necessary to complete my project and it's shaping up pretty darn well. I'll give you a link when it's done. Then I can read the chapters I've skipped. Thanks for all the comments. mike ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
