Java APIs

hello,

my client-server program which uses socket and rmi communication was working perfectly with java 5. it seems broken with java 6 on some machines (it works fine on my machine so i cannot inspect it in detail)

rmi and socket communications works well within standalone applications. problem arises with java web start. below is the stack trace of an unsuccesfull socket creation attempt. rmi fails with similar stack trace

that machine has a new java6 installation and known to run the application without problems with java 5. any ideas ?

java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: socket
       at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source)
       at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source)
       at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source)
       at java.net.URI.toURL(Unknown Source)
       at com.sun.deploy.net.proxy.DeployProxySelector.connectFailed(Unknown Source)
       at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
       at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
       at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
       at java.net.Socket.<init>(Unknown Source)
       at java.net.Socket.<init>(Unknown Source)
       at NetTest.connect(NetTest.java:7)
       at NetTest.main(NetTest.java:16)
       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
       at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
       at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Unknown Source)
       at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Unknown Source)
       at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Unknown Source)
       at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)
       at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

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