See http://virtualschool.edu/wap for a nearly off-the-shelf solution to this problem insofar as I understand it from this description, except the wireless part. There are articles there to help with the "clearer understanding" part. At 11:08 AM +0100 6/29/01, Gareth James wrote: >Hello > >I am having trouble figuring out how to implement a server program which I >need. >What I want to do is to write a program for a server (a servlet?) that will >receive data in the form of a string/stream of bytes across a wireless >network and then parse the data into separate fields in a table which will >then be shown in a webpage (HTML). The string of data will be quite long as >it will be a whole database which has been concatenated into a string, >therefore when it is parsed at the other end it is just put into a table in >the form it was originally in. > >People have suggested MIDlets, JSP, etc to me but I still don't know how to >go about this at all. I have read about POST and GET but am not sure whether >these apply to my situation - although I am probably wrong! > >If anyone could help me get a clearer understanding of the best way >toattempt this application that would be great. > >Thank you > >Gareth James ><>< > >___________________________________________________________________________ >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 -- --- For industrial age goods there were checks and credit cards. For everything else there is mybank.dom at http://virtualschool.edu/mybank Brad Cox, PhD; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 703 361 4751 ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
