Asynchronous applet-servlet communication

Hi all,
I am trying to implement asynchronous applet-servlet communication and need your help. Anything would help(I tried with synchronous applet-servlet communication but doesn't solve my problem).
Thanks,

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/networking/index.html
You can open a socket connection. Bother the client and the server
can have separate threads for reading and writing and that you gives you
asynchronous communication. Later, if you think the server is generating
too many threads and not scaling, you can use features of .java.nio to
make it more scalable:
java.nio.channels

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import java.net.*;
public class NameApplet extends Applet implements ActionListener
private TextField text;
private Button button1;
private String webServerStr = null;
private String hostName = "localhost";
     private int port = 8080;
private String servletPath = "/examples/servlet/NameServlet?letter=";
private String letter;
public void init()
     button1 = new Button("A");
button1.addActionListener(this);
add(button1);
          text = new TextField(20);
     add(text);
// get the host name and port of the applet's web server
          URL hostURL = getCodeBase();
     hostName = hostURL.getHost();
port = hostURL.getPort();
          webServerStr = "http://" + hostName + ":" + port + servletPath;
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
     if (e.getSource() == button1)
     letter = "" + 'A';
private String getName(String letter){
String name = "" ;
try {
          URL u = new URL(webServerStr + letter);
          Object content = u.getContent();
name = content.toString();
     } catch (Exception e) {
     System.err.println("Error in getting name");
return name;
SERVLET CODE:
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.Properties;
public class NameAppletServlet extends HttpServlet {
private static Connection conn = null;
private static final char DEFAULT_CHAR = 'A';
private static final char MIN_CHAR = 'A';
private static final char MAX_CHAR = 'G';
private static final String PROCEDURE_CALL
= "{call get_letter_description(?, ?)}";
protected void doGet( HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response )
throws ServletException, IOException
handleHttpRequest(request, response);
protected void doPost( HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response )
throws ServletException, IOException
handleHttpRequest(request, response);
protected void handleHttpRequest( HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response )
throws ServletException, IOException
String phrase = null;
char letter = getLetter(request, DEFAULT_CHAR);
if (letter >= MIN_CHAR && letter <= MAX_CHAR) {
try {
name = getName(conn, letter);
} catch (SQLException se) {
String msg = "Unable to retrieve name from database.";
name = msg;
} else {
String msg = "Invalid letter '" + letter + "' requested.";
//throw new ServletException(msg);
phrase = msg;
response.setContentType("text/plain");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println(name);
private String getName(Connection conn, char letter)
throws SQLException
CallableStatement cstmt = conn.prepareCall(PROCEDURE_CALL);
cstmt.setString(1, String.valueOf(letter));
cstmt.registerOutParameter(2, Types.VARCHAR);
cstmt.execute();
String name = cstmt.getString(2);
cstmt.close();
return name;
private char getLetter(HttpServletRequest request, char defaultLetter) {
char letter = defaultLetter;
String letterString = request.getParameter("letter");
if (letterString!=null) {
letter = letterString.charAt(0);
return letter;
public void init(ServletConfig conf) throws ServletException {
super.init(conf);
String dbPropertyFile = getInitParameter("db.property.file");
try {
Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
conn = DriverManager.getConnection(
"jdbc:oracle:thin:myserver:1521:CDD",
"scott",
"tiger");
} catch (IOException ioe) {
throw new ServletException(
"Unable to init ReinforcementServlet: " + ioe.toString());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
throw new ServletException(
"Unable to init ReinforcementServlet. Could not find driver: "
+ cnfe.toString());
} catch (SQLException se) {
throw new ServletException(
"Unable to init ReinforcementServlet. Error establishing"
+ " database connection: " + se.toString());
}

Hi,
I am not able to understand by which method you are doing Applet-Servlet commuincation.
If you want to use Object Serialization method, plz.get the details from following URL.
http://www.j-nine.com/pubs/applet2servlet/
Ajay

EOF exception during applet - servlet communication

I am developing a system for the US Gov't. This system currently
          utilizes several applets which access corresponding servlets on
          WebLogic. Seemingly, things went wrong for no apparent reason this
          morning. When, trying to run our applets, WebLogic throws an exception:
          "Caught EOFException in the stream header" These exceptions occur
          everytime the servlet would open the input stream from the applet. What
          makes things mind-boggling is that these applets/servlets were working
          this morning, and suddenly now give these exceptions. The code for both
          the applets and servlets has not been touched in weeks. Furthermore, i
          tested even further by running WebLogic locally and running the applets
          in our IDE (as applications) and the same results occur. I am running
          WebLogic 5.1 SP6 on both the remote and local system and am utilizing
          JDK 1.3 on both as well. The server is running on WinNT SP6 and locally
          is Win2000 Pro SP1. These applets are critical to the entire system and
          i am just totally baffled as to why something that was working fine one
          day ago should all of the sudden spit up errors and exceptions.
          If anyone can give me some insight as to what is going on, please let me
          know.
          Thank you,
          Randy Strobel
          [email protected]


Randy,
          I don't know of any particular reasons why WebLogic would suddenly affect an
          application in the manner that you describe. Start by figuring out where
          the message comes from:
          > "Caught EOFException in the stream header"
          I assume that is in WebLogic's code, not yours? Figure out as close as
          possible who is detecting this error condition. If it is in WebLogic's
          code, you can ask support at BEA to tell you what it is complaining about
          (i.e. what it is expecting to read).
          You will have to post the exception trace here and it would help to see the
          code that is causing the exception.
          Cameron Purdy
          Tangosol, Inc.
          http://www.tangosol.com
          +1.617.623.5782
          WebLogic Consulting Available
          "Randy Strobel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          news:[email protected]...
          > I am developing a system for the US Gov't. This system currently
          > utilizes several applets which access corresponding servlets on
          > WebLogic. Seemingly, things went wrong for no apparent reason this
          > morning. When, trying to run our applets, WebLogic throws an exception:
          > "Caught EOFException in the stream header" These exceptions occur
          > everytime the servlet would open the input stream from the applet. What
          > makes things mind-boggling is that these applets/servlets were working
          > this morning, and suddenly now give these exceptions. The code for both
          > the applets and servlets has not been touched in weeks. Furthermore, i
          > tested even further by running WebLogic locally and running the applets
          > in our IDE (as applications) and the same results occur. I am running
          > WebLogic 5.1 SP6 on both the remote and local system and am utilizing
          > JDK 1.3 on both as well. The server is running on WinNT SP6 and locally
          > is Win2000 Pro SP1. These applets are critical to the entire system and
          > i am just totally baffled as to why something that was working fine one
          > day ago should all of the sudden spit up errors and exceptions.
          >
          > If anyone can give me some insight as to what is going on, please let me
          > know.
          > Thank you,
          > Randy Strobel
          > [email protected]
          >
          >

Netscape problem with applet servlet communication

Netscape always seems to get in the way when you use applets, right?
I have a nice set of code from a book that shows how to do applet->servlet stuff.
But although I'm doing this all in the privacy of my own localhost Netscape immediately put a spanner in the works with a security exception and wouldn't let the servlet respond.
Anyone know what to do here.
The answer is to use Internet Explorer, possibly, but I'm in linux, and I can't get Opera to work with java yet.
Anyone got any ideas? Thanks.

I encountered a security exception with Netscape in Linux when attempting applet-servlet stuff but that's prpbably because I haven't got the plugin for that yet...in fact I don't know if a plugin is available for sure...let me know if you do. As a matter of fact I plan on using the HTMLConverter this weekend to find out if it'll download a plugin.
The applet-servlet thing runs fine in IE and Netscape on my Windows box as long as the plugins are there and I use the appropriate plugin tags in the HTML
Post what you find out,
Brad

Applet Servlet communication (urgent)

Hi,
I m using Netscape Enterrpise server 4.0 as my web server. I am passing data from applet to servlet using BufferedInputStream(). But it takes about 30 seconds to send the data. If i don't use it, the data is not being read by the servlet. Is there any alternative to this ? Please help.
Thanks

It's only the primary key field that i am passing to the servlet from applet .. For this particular process, it takes 30 seconds + other things like loading the applet, etc. so in all, it takes about 1 minute just to fetch the data from servlet which is not reasonable. We have monitored the whole process. We found that other things like query, etc. does not take much time, but BufferedInputStream() itself takes 30 seconds. Regarding communication line, it is quite fast. We are a corporate sector, so no doubt about the speed of the communication line ...
Thanks for help.

How to Obtain Applet -servlet communication through https protocol

We are trying to use https protocol.
First I will explain Our Architecture. We are using JRun 3.0
as servlet engine. We are using iplanet as a webserver.
There are two iplanet webservers.
There is a firewall between two iPlanet servers. i.e, one webserver
is outside the firewall. JRun is communicating with inside iplannett
webserver and inside iplannett webserver is communicating with
outside iplannet server.
If we are trying to run the application with
this firewall, our applet is not loading,
but the servlets and jsp pages are all working fine.
Without the firewall, everything is working fine.
The applet is also working fine.
But, with the firewall, our applet is not loading.
We are using JRE 1.3 as java plug-in.
What is the problem so that the applet is not loading.
and How to resolve this? can anybody give suggestion in this regard?
Thanks in advance.

No, I am not getting any security exception for the applet, but I am getting the following exception when working with HTTPS. The same application works fine with the default HTTP protocol
java.net.UnknownServiceException: Input from HTTPS not expected until OutputStream is closed
     at sun.plugin.protocol.https.BrowserHttpsURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
     at JBSchedulerXNew.initReceiveAppointmentData(JBSchedulerXNew.java:122)
     at JBSchedulerXNew.initReceiveAppointmentData(JBSchedulerXNew.java:92)
     at JBSchedulerXNewDemo.init(JBSchedulerXNewDemo.java:110)
     at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Delays in applet-servlet communication via serialization

The application that I am developing requires the applet to communicate with a servlet. It works fine except that it seems to send the data in spurts. The servlet seems to wait for good time before it sends out the next batch. It also seems that the batch is defined by the amount of data collected before the final write. This is inspite of flushing data and reseting the stream after every write.
Please advise what could be done to solve this problem. I have added the detailed description below.
DESCRIPTION
APPLET
The applet opens a ObjectInput Stream (HTTP Tunneling) over the URLConnection and waits for Objects to come to it on a separate thread . I receive the objects and put them in a queue to ensure quick reading from the stream.
Relevant Code:
try{
URL serveletURL = new URL( baseURL + cduURL);
System.out.println(" URL is " + serveletURL);
cduCtrlConn = (HttpURLConnection ) serveletURL.openConnection();
cduCtrlConn.setUseCaches(false);
cduCtrlConn.setDoInput(true);
inStream = new ObjectInputStream(
new BufferedInputStream(cduCtrlConn.getInputStream()));
catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
try {
dataQ = new Vector(30);
DataEventObj tmpDeObj = (DataEventObj) inStream.readObject();
eObjListener = new EntityObjectListener(dataQ,inStream);
EntityObjectListener is extends thread and waits on the stream. Once it gets the objects it addes it to the dataQ (vector). It relevant code is .............
if (NmsClientGlobals.TRACE2)
System.out.println( "EntityObjectListener.run(): Reading object");
deObj = (DataEventObj) inStream.readObject();
SERVLET
The servlet opens a ObjectOutputStream over the HttpServletResponse. It first gets a bunch of objects from a database and writes to the stream. It also registers for change events coming from the database. When these events comes, it gets the new objects and writes them to Stream.
Relevant Code:
response.setStatus (HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
outStream = new ObjectOutputStream(
new BufferedOutputStream(response.getOutputStream(),256));
outStream.flush();
// I used different buffer sizes (default-512, 1024, 256) to see if it make a difference .. it seems // not
.......... // The following the done for all objects available in the database in a loop
outStream.writeObject(tmpDataEnvObj);
outStream.flush(); // Doing repeat flush to ensure that it goes through
outStream.flush();
outStream.flush();
outStream.flush();
outStream.flush();
outStream.reset(); // reset is suggested to make stream work
outStream.flush();
utilLogger.debug("Written object: " + deObj.flag );
The same code is used by thread that receives notification and then writes it to the stream. If this thread does not receive notifications for 10secs it writes dummy object to the stream. It was done as an attempted fix to the problem (if connection dies ). After adding it, I saw some interesting observations
SOME OBSERVATIONS
1. The server logs prints out that the object has been written but the client logs (java console) shows that it is waiting for input to come.
2. If the amount of data is less then it takes longer for data to come to the client. It seems to me that the server waits for the stream to be filled with dummy data before it sends the final data packet. This seems to be only explaination for this observation is that there is a threshold for packet size. But, I know of no option to set this threshold. Anyway, this is analysus and may not be correct.
3. I ran a snoop on the connection between the PC and Sun Machine. The queues for the TCP are empty. It seems that after server code prints to the logs that data is written, the TCP doesnot receive it. It seems something in the Java API or the tomcat webserver is holding the data.
ENVIRONMENT
server
Platform: Solaris 2.8
Java : jre 1.2.2_008
Web server: Tomcat 3.2.1
Client
IE 5.5 with java plugin 1.2.2_008
I appreciate your help in solving this problem
-Seonie

You are using a communication protocol (HTTP) that is designed for "client sends 1 request, server sends 1 response, end of story" pattern for something that is more than that. I understand that you are trying to send binary data over HTTP in order to tunnel over a firewall-friendly protocol, but HTTP was not designed for long-lasting connections. (because HTTP is "client pull", you will have to keep the connection open for a long time and keep the client blocked on read).
This is not the ideal solution. You have been warned.
However, if you insist on it and do not want to close the stream, try an HTTP-specific way of flushing data, like
response.flushBuffer();The motivation behind this suggestion is that the OutputStream you are getting from the response object is probably already buffered, but it likely goes off of a buffer maintained by the HTTP implementation. Hence you can try flushing that directly.
Vlad.

Https applet servlet communication

Hi friends, is there any way to make a communication between applet and servlet via https?

URLConnection works fine.
Now for the fine print...
If you have an applet running in MSJVM (equivalent to 1.1.X), Netscape JVM (1.1.x) or Sun Java Plugin (until v. 1.3.X), URLConnection simply uses the browser's SSL implementation and SSL works fine if the browser is correctly configured. The trusted CA certificates are the CA certificates in the Internet Explorer trusted CA database (if running in Internet Explorer) or the Netscape trusted CA database (if running in Netscape).
If your applet runs under Sun Java Plugin 1.4.X (required by Mozilla and Netscape 7, and probably by Internet Explorer running under Windows XP and 2003 - not for technical reasons but by legal ones), the story is different.
URLConnection uses JSSE (Sun's pure Java SSL implementation), and it uses the Sun Plugin trusted CA database (the file cacerts). The list of CAs is smaller than the list of Internet Explorer or Netscape, and it is not easy to update (requires a manual process). Adding to it, older versions (1.4.0, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 until 1.4.2_02) simply have problems if you are using a Microsoft proxy that requires NTLM authentication.
So if you want to use SSL you need to be aware of all that deployment problems.
a) Use the latest version of the Sun Plug-In you can deploy in your clients (1.4.2_04)
b) Verify if the web server running HTTPS has a certificate issued by some CA included in the CACERTS list (if you have very few clients, you can try to update CACERTS manually for each client if your CA is not included in the CACERTS file, but probably it is cheaper to get a certificate issued by some CA included in the CACERTS instead.)

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