Hi,

All I want to know that can I call a servlet from a JFrame or in general from a stand alone application instead of calling form a browser.

I have seen many applications which receive data...i.e details from Internet web sites...from a stand alone application can we also do from a JFrame or a just a Frame application.

If possible just provide me how it can be done....

is it possible to to do witu URL class???

Expecting reply
regards
Vamshi

yes it can be done,
creat a new URL object and pass teh path of your web application as parameter:

URL url = new URL("http://127.0.0.1:8080/WEBAPPLICATION(OR COMPLETE PATH TO THE SERVLET YOU ARE CALLING");

firas

Thank you firas.
I have asked many about this a I had not received a proper reply. Yes I will call the servlet in this way. Do I need to set the setContentType("text/html)--:to some thing other than this. If so please reply with parameters to be passed to the setContent Menthod.

Thank you again as this information is very usefull for me.
Regards
Vamshidhar M T

setContentType(); is a signal to the browser to tell what is coming, i understood you are doing a stand alone application. if you are trying to create your own browser with special features and can recognize the content type then yes you have to tell it. however if your stand alone application is only try to access the server to do some work to your web application so there is no need to that, you can rerurn what ever you want as long as your application knows what is getting.

Firas

Hi Firas,

Thank you for U R immediate reply and taking concern abt the issue.

U have posted the reply what exactly I was looking for.
Here I have some more doubts in the same concern.
1. What if I have a small login JDialogBox which will ask for a user name and password. Aftre which I send the details to a Servlet by calling the URL constructor... and then I want a small result to be sent back to the client can I do it???
2.In the above regar can I use RMI instead of Servlet calling using a URL(). Which one is appropriae here???

Regards
Vamshidhar

1- yes.
2- yes, which one is appropriate? the answer depends on what you are doing and type of connection. if this is a client-server application you can use rmie, if you are feeding a web application through yours then you can use EJBs so what you feed through your application will be fed to the web application.