Question

I’m new with java and tomcat, so, excuse me if it’s silly.

I would like to send commands (from the console) to a servlet that is already running on tomcat. The webapp will run the command in the tomcat context and return the appropiate answer.

i.e:

$ consoleApp status
running

Is it possible?, if yes, how?

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can make HTTP GET (or POST) requests to your servlet from the command line using tools like curl or wget and then process the servlet’s response. Advantage: If properly set up, you can run those commands also from a remote location.