[development] Is their a way within Drupal to connect to a Javaservlet or Java Server Page (JSP)?

[Warren Vail]

Depends on what you mean by connect, you can tell that various answers had
difficulty with this one.

Most assumed that you meant, "redirect a user to" a Java Servlet or JSP. And
it's as easy as sending them to another website.

Java Servlets and Java Server Pages usually will be running on a server
different than the one hosting your PHP (I would hate to try to manage an
apache server that tried to support both).  

Sometimes Servlets produce XML data that is processed by another module
before being imbedded in a web page and you can certainly do that.  I
believe one respondent mentioned consuming data, this is probably what he
meant (look at SOAP).  The Javascript portion of AJAX can be used to imbed
data from a Servlet as well and you can certainly use AJAX in your Drupal
modules, although most of your work will not be done with PHP.

Hope this helps,

Warren Vail

-----Original Message-----
From: John Mitchell [mailto:mitchelljj98 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 12:24 PM
To: development at drupal.org
Cc: John Mitchell
Subject: [development] Is their a way within Drupal to connect to a
Javaservlet or Java Server Page (JSP)?

Hi,

Is their a way within Drupal to connect to a Java servlet or Java
Server Page (JSP)?

Thanks,

John

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John J. Mitchell