One final question and I'm hoping you guys can answer it because it's likely a small error. As I've said, the actual time it takes the socket to respond to the data sent is 30-60 seconds. I noticed, however, that as soon as the socket.send() goes through from flash, if I close the app, I see instant results in the java output window. Is there something I'm forgetting to do in Flash? Something like a flush command or something?