Input streams kill my applet

This is probably a little thing that I have forgotten but I can't for the life of me get. Ok I should probably say I am running XP, with Java 1.5 and Firefox

I have an applet that works fine on Eclipse but when I try to run it by it self it seems to die at the point where I have my input streams.

Basicly I have included the test code that removes all the input processing and tree building. This test script below just opens a input stream, creates a tree with two nodes and displays the tree. If you remove any the 3 TRYS it will not work.

I have tried various methods to read in the URL I have but it seems to die every time. I have included the code below. If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks

Luis

import java.applet.AppletContext;

import java.awt.Color;

import java.awt.Font;

import java.io.DataInputStream;

import java.io.InputStream;

import java.net.*;

import java.io.*;

import javax.swing.JApplet;

import javax.swing.JLabel;

import javax.swing.JScrollPane;

import javax.swing.JTree;

import javax.swing.event.TreeSelectionEvent;

import javax.swing.event.TreeSelectionListener;

import javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode;

import javax.swing.tree.TreePath;

import java.net.URLConnection;

publicclass TestAppletextends JApplet{

// Variables used by the applet

protected JTree jt;

protected URL url;

publicvoid init(){

setBackground(Color.lightGray);

setFont(new Font("Verdana", Font.BOLD, 12));

try{

url =new URL("http://www.yahoo.com");

//IF I REMOVE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS IT DOES NOT WORK

//TRY 1. IF REMOVED IT WILL NOT WORK

/*URL yahoo = new URL("http://www.yahoo.com/");

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(yahoo.openStream());

String inputLine;

while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)

System.out.println(inputLine);

in.close();

*/

//TRY 2. IF REMOVED IT WILL NOT WORK

/*URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();

InputStream in = connection.getInputStream();

DataInputStream stream = new DataInputStream(in);

*/

//TRY 3. IF REMOVED IT WILL NOT WORK

//BufferedReader stream = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));

DefaultMutableTreeNode rootNode =new DefaultMutableTreeNode(url);

rootNode.add(new DefaultMutableTreeNode("Child 1"));

JTree jt =new JTree(rootNode);

// Tree Setup

jt.setExpandsSelectedPaths(true);

jt.setVisible(true);

jt.putClientProperty("JTree.lineStyle","Angled");

getContentPane().removeAll();

getContentPane().add(jt);

//stream.close();

//iStream.close();

}catch (Exception e){

e.printStackTrace();

}

}

publicvoid start(){

}

}// end TreeApplet Class

[4866 byte] By [lbarberia] at [2007-10-3 5:22:05]