Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Okay, I'm done a bit of RTFM and STFW, and haven't found the answer yet. While I'm continuing to search, if anybody can give a quick executive summary or point me to a link, I'd appreciate it.

This is either more complicated than it seems, or my Friday afternoon brain is just missing something big.

User clicks a link or button on our site.

The request comes to MyAction extends Action.

MyAction's execute method takes some session & request info, builds an XML doc, transforms it to a String or Stream or Writer, and then sends that XML string to a different URL, on a completely different site, via POST. There are no request parameters. The XML is just sent as the POST data.

Here's where I'm having major brain block: How do tell struts to forward (Or redirect? forward, I think.) to this URL, and tell it "use this string (or stream or writer--I can do whichever works) as the POST data"?

Remeber: There's no form, and no param name/value pairs.

The normal way we move from page to page is ActionMapping.findForward, but I'm not finding a way to sent the POST string.

So, what am I missing here? Or is it just not as easy as I think it should be?

Continuing to search, will post back here if I find the answer on my own.

Thanks,
Jeff