Scheduled task in tomcat - how?

[Michael Mehrle]

I need to create an automated task in tomcat that gets launched every two 
hours or so, does its work and then sleeps again. The task needs to send 
some request values via a secure (https) POST to a cgi script running on an 
outside server, then receive the response, parse it and put it into the 
database. The response doesn't return the values as request parameters, but 
instead simply returns records in CSV (comma separated values) format, one 
record per line.

So, here's what I'm pondering:
 a.. What's the best way to create that automated (scheduled) task and run 
it as a servlet under tomcat (5.5.9)?
 b.. You guys might laugh, but the last time I parsed CSV as part of the 
HTTP response was in my Perl days (looong ago) - is there some servlet 
support for doing this, or do I need to code alll this stuff myself from 
scratch?
 c.. Finally, what's the best approach to 'receiving' the response? The 
servlet issueing the request is obviously the requester, but since this is 
running inside of tomcat, how do I route the response to that servlet? Maybe 
I'm overthinking this, but I'm not sure how a servlet can be the recipient 
of its own request. Hope this makes sense.
Any input on one or more of these questions would be appreciated.

Michael
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