//  Listing 2
//
//  Applet client-side code to send a student object
//  to a servlet in a serialized fashion.
//
//  A POST method is sent to the servlet.
//

URL studentDBservlet = new URL( webServerStr );
URLConnection servletConnection = studentDBservlet.openConnection();  

// inform the connection that we will send output and accept input
servletConnection.setDoInput(true);          
servletConnection.setDoOutput(true);
	        
// Don't use a cached version of URL connection.
servletConnection.setUseCaches (false);
servletConnection.setDefaultUseCaches (false);

// Specify the content type that we will send binary data
servletConnection.setRequestProperty ("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream");
	        	        	         
// send the student object to the servlet using serialization
outputToServlet = new ObjectOutputStream(servletConnection.getOutputStream());
	        
// serialize the object
outputToServlet.writeObject(theStudent);
	        
outputToServlet.flush();	        
outputToServlet.close();