Hi all - I'd appreciate any help in replicating the classic ASP code
below using JSP...

My experience has been with ASP, PHP and some .net - JSP is completely
new to me.  I installed Ubuntu 7 Server as a lamp server and installed
the java jdk and tomcat.  I'm able to do a simple helloworld.jsp page
but perhaps I need to add "www.partnerco.net" to a policy?

Ideally we'd like to be able to give a snippet of code in multiple
server-side languages (ASP, PHP, .NET, JSP) to pull content from our
site - with as little effort on their part as necessary.

In ASP:
getcontent.asp
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<%
 strID = "myid"
 strURL = "http://www.partnerco.net/shared/?id=" & strID
 Set objXmlHttp = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP")
 objXmlHttp.open "GET", strURL, False
 objXmlHttp.send
 strHTML = objXmlHttp.responseText
 response.write strHTML
%>
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I've made an attempt - however I get a HTTP Status 500 access denied
error...
In JSP:
getcontent.jsp
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<%@ page language="java" import="java.net.*,java.util.*,java.io.*" %>
<%
URL url;
URLConnection urlConn;
DataInputStream in;

url = new URL ("http://www.partnerco.net/shared/?id=01");
urlConn = url.openConnection();

in = new DataInputStream(urlConn.getInputStream());
String strSVContent;
while (null != ((strSVContent = in.readLine()))) {
 out.println(strSVContent);
}
in.close();
%>
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Error Info
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exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: access denied
(java.net.SocketPermission www.partnerco.net:80 connect,resolve)
...

root cause
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied
(java.net.SocketPermission www.partnerco.net:80 connect,resolve)
...
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Some googling indicates I may need to update a policy file for tomcat.
** Is this something a typical other user of this code would have to
do??

Don't hesitate to give me your recommended sites/books for someone
moving from classic ASP to JSP!

Thanks for any help or directions!
-J-