New to Java

The class that i write will be only used by me and only to extract data from one website.

secruity is not a problem, so there should be no need to encypt. Here is the kind of steps that I have put together so far, please could you comment on them...

1. find out what the textfields are called on the website that I enter my username and psswd in //do this by hand once
2. parse the website username and password
3. traverse to correct web page
4. return page info in xml format //sorry im new to this side of programming, is it easy to convert html - xml
5. need to strip out all unessary xml comments to reveal me with my specific data??

Thanks