Polling from java Web start to web server

[ram]

I need to poll the web server that launched the java web start.
Does anybody can throw some light on how can I do this.
Right now I am thinking of:
1) Have a Client thread which polls every specific interval. And Server side open a proxy server listening on a particular socket. More of Socket programming

[karthikeyan Chockalingam]

Instead you can open a HttpURLConnection and analyse a meta file which indicates any changes [as below] perodically in a Thread. Or you can invoke a server side component using HTTP Tunnelling.

URL url = new URL("http:\\host  :-P	  ort\location of the file");
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
conn.connect();

[ May 14, 2008: Message edited by: karthi keyan ]

[ram]

Originally posted by Mayya Ramdas:
I need to poll the web server that launched the java web start.
I am having 2 options
Using HTTP calls, or seperate socket

[ram]

Yes I am doing HttpUrlConnection for scheduled polling.
Still there are many ways to do that
Thanks

[Ben Souther]

"Mayya",
Please check your private messages.
-Ben