Consume XML in JSP from a URL

[Satya Sri]

Hi,

Please let me know the best approach in the below scenario :

I have a URL which returns an XML. I want to use this URL in a JSP page get the output XML, store it in a string and apply some CSS over it.

Please let me know the best way to approach this.

Thanks,
Satya.

[William Brogden]

The best way to approach the problem is to develop a freestanding Java class that opens the URL and reads the stream into an XML parser.

Once you are able to parse the XML add methods to extract whatever you need from it.

Note that none of the above involves JSP because code inside a JSP just complicates things. Get it running as a utility class first.

If you have not done any XML processing, go do Sun's XML tutorial first.

Bill

[Satya Sri]

I don't want to make a URLConnection and then open the URL as the Application that i have presently has got some thread stuck issues with opening URL connections from the Weblogic App server that it already hosted on.

[Ben Souther]

Then how do you plan on getting the XML into your application?

[Satya Sri]

That is the question that i had. I have a URL and can get the XML by hitting the URL, but i do not want to make a URLConnection. So is there any other approach to get the XML other than using URLConnection ?

[Ben Souther]

If it's only available as a web resource (URL) and you don't want to access it as a web resource, I don't know what other options you have.

Can you explain the treading issue that you're having?