returning values from with-java-applet

Is there a way to launch a java applet from with-java-applet, 
collect several strings in the applet's input fields and return
them to the Lisp environment?  I've looked at the twistdown-tree 
example and don't find in it a way of doing this (which may be 
my fault).  If with-java-applet isn't the right approach for this,
are there other ways (perhaps jlinker?) that someone could
recommend?    The Lisp/OS/hardware environment
for this is ACL 6.0/Solaris 8/Sun Blade 2000.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Ben