Dawa,
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>I don't know what they are using. I need find that out first.
>Yes, I did try sniffing. Unfortunately, the communication is over SSL and I only see the encrypted data.

I was lucky insofar as they had a simulation evironment I could start at one of my test machines
- there I switched off scrambling to get a clean sniff<g>.

But I also established a direct contact to one of the developers there by asking some highly technical questions in a document
and waited for the poor fellow asked to answer call back on the number I had provided. After assuring him that
the problems could be probably cleared by phone he provided a few hints helping me and I gave him feedback on how to talk to non java clients<g>.

good luck

thomas