Java application information to a Java Web application

[Rnd4994]

Hi all,
I am new to using the Java Web application in Netbeans and am trying to get a better understanding as to what I can use this for. It appears to me that you can have a user input and view information, but I am not positive.

What I am trying to do is I am in the process of developing a Java Application that will run, and accept user information that is input from a program that runs on there desktop. But then I want that information to be able to be seen online, so I want to use a web page as the place where people can go to see the information, but I want the changes to be able to be made from the desktop, without the user having to go online. So the updates that are made will be transferred online, or pushed to the webpage I decide to use. Is the web application something that can do this, or is there a better tool that I should be looking into.

Any and all advice is appreciated.

[wsaryada]

There's nothing stop you from creating a desktop application in swing for instance as the client program. And then called it to a web / servlet based application so that you can store information supplied by user in the desktop and stored in the web application. You might want to take a look at the java.net.URLConnection class. Or using Commons Http Client from the Apache.

[Rnd4994]

How would I go about doing this? Would I design my desktop app, and then design a web app that pulls the data from the desktop app. I am just trying to make sure that the data that is input into the desktop app, will be reliably pushed to the web app, and there wont be some big delay in time.