Can some one point me to a simple tutorial which allows you to post or stream an xml to a URL. Does this make any sense? Is this even possible with web services?
If you Google for "sending HTTP POST with Java", you'll find plenty of sample code like this. You just need to replace the 'data' variable in that example with the raw XML.
Well, I used Axis jars, but saaj and dom apis are standard and will work irrespective of which implementation u choose. I don't think there is any need of proxy server on the application server. Ashutosh