Stuck on socketChannel.read();

I have an applet that connects to a C/C++ server.

The server sends packets but the applet can't read them for some reason.

It gets stuck on socketChannel.read(); even though I set it to non-blocking.

Code :

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            try
            {
                socketChannel = SocketChannel.open();
                socketChannel.configureBlocking(false);
                socketChannel.connect(new InetSocketAddress(serverAddress, serverPort));
            }
            catch (UnknownHostException e) 
            {
                message = "Don't know about host: " + serverAddress;
                return;
            } 
            catch (IOException e) 
            {
                message = "Couldn't get I/O for the connection to: " + serverAddress;
                return;
            }
 
            try
            {
                while(!socketChannel.finishConnect());
            }
            catch(IOException e)
            {
                message = "Error on finishConnect();";
                return;
            }
 
            try
            {
                socketChannel.socket().setTcpNoDelay(true);
            }
            catch(SocketException e)
            {
                message = "Error: " + e.toString();
                return;
            }
 
            message = "Logging in...";
 
            int bytes;
 
 
            try 
            {
                response.clear();
                bytes = socketChannel.read(response); // <------- here
            }
            catch (IOException e) 
            {
                message = "Exception: " + e.getMessage();
                return;
            }
 
            message = "Done";

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Oh, forgot to ByteBuffer.allocateDirect();

don't understand what you mean with "It gets stuck on socketChannel.read();". Exception? Hung? Garbage?