"Pointers?" You need a design meeting, dude....
You pose a very interesting problem but I have to go earn some money so I
can go to JavaOne now. I'll save your message, however, and try to get you
my solution sometime this weekend.
Cheers!
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nitin Goyal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 7:14 AM
Subject: Servlet Mocking a browser.
> Hi,
>
> We are presently trying to address the following issue:
>
> Our application needs to publish data to various sites, the form fields
and data
> for which are separate for each. As an example, say a supplier wants to
add his
> product to the catalogs of 10 websites that maintain such catalogs.
Typically
> he goes to each of these websites, logs in and fills up a form. The form
fields
> and data for each of these are different from each other - so the data
entry
> form on site A has:
> Product Name
> Product Description
> Sale Price
> and so on
>
> while that on site B has:
>
> Product Name
> Quantity Offered
> Date of Availability
> Sale Price
> Discounts
> and so on
>
> Now suppose that the user adding his product has all the relevant
information
> available to him. Thus it implies that he has an xml file (say) with all
the
> relevant information he wants to post and default values for the other
fields.
> The file looks like
> <name> Cookies </name>
> <ID> 101 </ID>
> <Description> blah blah <Description>
> <price>$100<price>
> <Quantity> 12 </Quantity>
> and so on.
>
> Now to what we are trying to do:
>
> We will manually maintain a mapping file for each site.
>
> Thus the mapping file for site A will look like:
> name, Product Name # indicates that name mapps to Product Name
> Description, Product Description
> and so on...
>
> while for site B,
>
> name, Product Name
> price, Sale Price
> Quantity, Quantity Offered
> and so on.
>
> We are trying to explore the possibility of a servlet being able to login
to
> each site, opne the data entry form page and POST the data in the forms
after
> reading the mapping files. The mapping files will be maintained manually.
>
> Any pointers on how to achieve this are most welcome.
>
> Regards
> Nitin Goyal
> Webrizon eSolutions Pvt. Ltd.,
> B-31, Sector 5, Noida-201301 (UP) INDIA
> Tel (O) : 91.118.4421319, 4421320. Cell : 91.9810353030
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> There is no failure except in no longer trying.
>
>
___________________________________________________________________________
> To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the
body
> of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST".
>
> Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html
> Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html
> LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
>
___________________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body
of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST".
Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html
Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html
LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
