JCO.createClient() hangs in NW servlet init() method

I am using NW'04 support package 9 and am trying to create a JCo connection in a servlet's init method. The call to JCO.createClient() seems to hang indefinitely. I've attached a code sample below, showing the init method and the class that it calls.

All comments welcome. Using JCo is new to me. I've was able to call createClient() from a session bean in the EJB container just file and have not seem anything posted stating that I cannot use the web container in nw. If an error is getting logged, then I don't know where to look.

Donald

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import java.io.*;

import javax.servlet.*;

import javax.servlet.http.*;

public class MyApplicationServlet extends HttpServlet implements SingleThreadModel {

public void init(ServletConfig cfg)

throws ServletException {

private LoggerImpl _logger =

LoggerFactory.getLogger(...);

_logger.logInfo("Initializing App Servlet");

super.init(cfg);

_logger.logInfo("before call to doTest");

(new JCoTest()).doTest();

_logger.logInfo("after call to doTest");

}

}

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import com.sap.mw.jco.JCO;

public class JCoTest {

public void doTest () {

private LoggerImpl _logger =

LoggerFactory.getLogger(...);

_logger.logInfo ("running JCoTest.doTest() ...");

JCO.Client jcoClient;

try {

jcoClient = JCO.createClient

("001","user","pw","host","00");

// jcoClient.connect();

} catch (Exception ex) {

_logger.logError("JCoTest.doTest() done with error ... " + ex);

}

_logger.logInfo ("JCoTest.doTest() done ...");

}

}