//  Listing 5
//
//  Applet client-side code to read a serialized 
//  vector of student objects from a servlet.
//
//

// connect to the servlet
URL studentDBservlet = new URL( servletLocation );
URLConnection servletConnection = studentDBservlet.openConnection();  
	        	    
// Don't used a cached version of URL connection.
servletConnection.setUseCaches (false);
servletConnection.setDefaultUseCaches(false);

// Read the input from the servlet.  
//
// The servlet will return a serialized vector containing
// student entries.
//
inputFromServlet = new ObjectInputStream(servletConnection.getInputStream());
studentVector = (Vector) inputFromServlet.readObject();