Servlet applet object io streams

Question

hi! i have an applet and servlet which communicate through objectoutputstreams.
here's part of my applet code found in the init method:
hostServlet = new URL( "http://localhost:8080/scheduler/servlet/EditSchedule" );
hostConnection = (HttpURLConnection)hostServlet.openConnection();
hostConnection.setRequestMethod( "POST" );
System.out.println( "connected" );
//set headers
hostConnection.setDoInput( true );
hostConnection.setDoOutput( true );
hostConnection.setUseCaches( false );
hostConnection.setDefaultUseCaches( false );
hostConnection.setRequestProperty( "Content-Type", "application/x-java-serialized-object" );
//stream to servlet just to specify that we're using post not get
oos = new ObjectOutputStream( hostConnection.getOutputStream() );                                      
oos.writeObject( "inside" );                                                
oos.flush();
oos.writeObject( "inside2" );
oos.flush();
//get objects being passed by servlet
ooi = new ObjectInputStream( hostConnection.getInputStream() );
here's part of my servlet code in the doPost() method:
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream( response.getOutputStream() );
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream( request.getInputStream() );
response.setContentType( "application/x-java-serialized-object" );
oos.writeObject( object );               
oos.flush(); 
oos.close();     
//read objects
FileOutputStream fw = new FileOutputStream( "c:\\objectsRead.txt" );
ObjectOutputStream objectFw = new ObjectOutputStream( fw );
objectFw.writeObject( "from servlet" );
objectFw.flush();                                 
String inside = (String)ois.readObject();
objectFw.writeObject( inside );
objectFw.flush();
String outside = (String) ois.readObject();
objectFw.writeObject( outside );
objectFw.flush();
objectFw.close();both the inside and inside2 objects get written to my textfile. Although, in my applet, if i outputted inside2 after creating the objectinputstream, only inside1 gets written. This is my problem. I have to write back to the servlet way passed the ooi instantiation of the applet. Specifically, in an event handler outside the init method.
any help would be greatly appreciated! =)

Answer 1

another weird thing that i found out.
when i use the syntax:
oos.writeObject( "something" );
-->it gets passed to the servlet while
String str = "something";
oos.writeObject( str );
-->doesn't get passed.
hmm....
i tried setting the content type to application/octet-stream but still nothing.