How to call a webservice (cfm) from a servlet?

[Leticia Barbalho]

Hello guys,

I need to call an webservice that is in an address like this: http://www.address.com/service.cfm

I used to use it in a jsp, in a form, doing something like: <form action="http://www.address.com/service.cfm"> ...

The problem is that now I cannot use a jsp. I want to call it from the servlet (sending and receiving the parameters).. without any jsp.

Can someone show me how?

thanks

[Scott Dunbar]

In general I tend to use Apache Axis for my client and server webservice needs.

If this is not a true web service (XML/SOAP over HTTP) then you might want to consider using Apache Commons HttpClient to be the client in a web transaction.

[Bear Bibeault]

Investigate the java.net.URL and java.net.URLConnection classes.

Or make it easy on yourself and check into HttpUnit.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Scott is right on the money. If you don't want to get into Axis, how about a SAAJ client?