JSP - Applet Object communication.

Question

Hi,
I would like to know, what is the best way to pass Java Objects to Applet.
My module requires a complex JTree to be dynamically constructed by the Applet, thus making the Applet very process intensive.
To optimize the performance I want to write some components to generate the TreeModel (or relevant Value Objects) and the components will just pass objects to the Applet.
In short I am trying to implement it as a MVC architecture, where my Applet is a thin View.
However I do not know how to pass objects to Applets, I believe <param> tags are only useful for passing String datatypes, hence I am looking for alternatives, any recommendations on patterns/perfomance issues are welcomed.
Thanks.
Rgds,
Shafique Razzaque,
Singapore.

Answer 1

Previous poster has a point. However, this is a way of reading an object through an ObjectInputStream.
String servletLoc = "http://10.10.10.10/servlet/Servlet";
URL servletURL = new URL(servletLoc);
URLConnection servletConnection = servletURL.openConnection();
servletConnection.setUseCaches (false);               
servletConnection.setDefaultUseCaches(false);               
servletConnection.setDoInput(true);
servletConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-type", "application/octet-stream");
ObjectInputStream inputFromServlet = new ObjectInputStream(servletConnection.getInputStream());    
JTree someTree = (JTree) inputFromServlet.readObject();