It's very easy to force certain URL
patterns to go through SSL with
Java web apps. But... if his mind is made up it's made up.
For some reason this is a common topic here (cross context servlet communication) so you'll find plenty of discussions if you use the search feature.
Before making any suggestions, can you clarify what you mean by:
I have a servlet in the back-end that does a little processing and then needs to post an update to a servlet in the customer's side.
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If the two apps share a common database, you might not need to actually post to the 'customer' app. Otherwise, if you mean that you need to make HTTP posts from one application to another, you might want to look into the httpclient libraries from the Apache Jakarta group:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/ [ April 05, 2007: Message edited by: Ben Souther ]