How to connect a Java Swing application using Servlets to a server?

Question

I would like to connect my application via the internet to a server which has the MySQL Database.

How would I do that? And what's the Java Servlet to be used to connect?

Answer 1

You can use java.net.URLConnection or the more convenienced Apache HttpComponents Client to interact with arbitrary web resources.

See also:

• Using java.net.URLConnection to fire and handle HTTP requests

Answer 2

I don't think using barebone servlets is the best way to acheive what you want. I would do something like this:

• Create a new maven webapp archetype application
• Add MySQL dependency
• Add RESTLet or JAX-RS or Spring (version > 3.0) dependency and configure it to expose your data as RESTful web service. Lots of tutorials on the web.
• Use RESTLet client on your Swing application to invoke your service.

Answer 3

The most "modern" way to do this is using RESTful web service. I do not know how is your server side code built, but if I start to develop from scratch I'd use Spring framwork that has perfect support of REST web services.