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Wed, 08 December 2004 11:51

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: jasonus.us.ibm.com

Looking for an eclipse plugin (with source code preferibly) that will
> allow me to post an HTTP request. I am trying to integrate Eclipse with a
proprietary Server side app and want to be able to pass a large
> string as a parameter to a JSP page.
> Any help is greatly appreciated.

Jason

Re: HTTP Call from Plugin [message #57831 is a reply to message #55623]

Thu, 23 December 2004 15:45

Eclipse User

Jason Us wrote:

> Looking for an eclipse plugin (with source code preferibly) that will
>
>> allow me to post an HTTP request. I am trying to integrate Eclipse with a
>
> proprietary Server side app and want to be able to pass a large
>
>> string as a parameter to a JSP page.
>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Jason
>
>
Jason,

The java.net.URL class allows you to retrieve content from a Web server.
There are some WTP plugins that do that (e.g. Web Service Explorer). Try
searching the source for uses of java.net.URL.

However, the best way to do this is to turn your server-side app into a
Web service. This amounts to having it generate XML (wrapped in a SOAP
envelope) and creating a WSDL file to describe it. Then use the Web
service client tools to generate a client proxy and simply use that just
like you were calling a local method. If you want an Open Source
runtime, use Apache Axis. If your server-side app is running on a
commercial Web app server (e.g. WebSphere) then it comes with a Web
service runtime.

Web service tools will appear in WTP in M3.

-- Arthur

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