Applets and URL connections.

[Joel McNary]

I trying to run an applet on the Macintosh that connects to a servlet (running under Websphere) that provides data and functionality for the applet (via EJBs). The applet loads, but the second time that I try to connect to the servlet after the applet loads, it hangs (there are multiple connections to servlet made while the applet is loading).
The hang occurs while trying to get the outputStream from teh URLConnection. Here is the code:

public java.io.ObjectOutputStream getOutputStream() {
URL servletURL;
URLConnection servletConnection;
java.io.ObjectOutputStream anObjectStream;
java.io.OutputStream aStream;
try{
servletURL = this.getServletURL();
servletConnection = servletURL.openConnection();

servletConnection.setDoInput(true);
servletConnection.setDoOutput(true);
servletConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/octet stream");

this.setCurrentServletConnection(servletConnection);
/*Hangs in the following line*/
aStream = servletConnection.getOutputStream();
anObjectStream = new java.io.ObjectOutputStream(aStream);
return anObjectStream;
}
catch(java.io.IOException ioe){
com.convergents.ets.ppms.workflow.ETSApplication.handleException(ioe);
return null;
}
}

This runs fine under Windows; it hangs on the Mac (Running IE on both). Any ideas/suggestions/requests for more info?