I could use pointers to the right resource. The array of data and situations on the net is overwhelming.
I'm working with the interface between two companies.
The first wants to send a "silent post" to an https url hosted by the second company ( I am at the second company ). The first company doesn't need to see a web page, this is an automated process.
What I have to do is receive the post, parse out some data and then update a table in our database.
I presume from my readings this can be done as a servlet, am I correct? Should it be done as a servlet or is there a better approach that occurs to any of you off hand?
I know, they are newbish questions. I don't need anyone to write the code for me, just point me in the right directions. As usual, this has to be done in a short time frame and I'm under the gun.
Note that using both of those will require that your application run inside a Container, like tomcat. It's a lil bit more complicated than using plain java SE,
but will enable your application to the web.
There's also the option of using sockets, by in my point of view that would be very primitive AND it would give you a LOT more trouble.
abani patra wrote:I agree with Greenhorn you can use servlet for this but best solution is web service , you can use SOAP for this.
Yes, you can use SOAP, but why would you? Eduardo already mentioned RESTful web services, which should be the first tool of choice, unless and until it's clear that SOAP's capabilities are actually required. You certainly shouldn't claim it's the "best" solution, because that depends on the requirements about which we know just about nothing.
And yes, you can use servlets to implement simple RESTful web services, but I would advise to use a library like Jersey instead; it makes coding the service much simpler.
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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