Servlet to servlet communication

[Dustin Whitte]

What is the best mode of communicating between two servlets on different web servers/physical boxes?
I need to pass parameters to a different application's servlet and receive data back.
thanks for any help,
-D

[danny liu]

In my point of view, servlet is not for business processing purpose.
The better choice is wrappering the functionalities into a web service and then access it from servlet.

Dan

[Jeffrey Spaulding]

As always, it depends.
We use XML-RPC (see http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/).
Seems to work nicely without too much overhead.
It depends on the complexity of the objects you want
to put on the wire.
J.

[Dustin Whitte]

Thanks for your response I was not aware of the XML-RPC project. It might be a good fit for our project.
-D

[Gowrishankar Mudaliar]

Have you tried a url connection with the required parameters?
That should work for some scenarios....
Gowrishankar