Deal with http forms from java

hi everyone...
im trying to interact with a webpage that have a FORM in it....
the form is a log in form...
i want to supply the username and password through the java desktop application and get response from the form back to my java application.
the form uses POST.
is that doable in java ?
thanks in advance

It is possible. But rather than interacting with the Form page itself, you want to send a POST request to the page the form submits to. You should be able to look at the HTML to find what the target URL is, and what parameters need to be sent.
Once you know the page, and the parameter names/values, you use an HttpURLConnection to send the POST request.
Note that in some sites, you have to first send a request to the log in form, parse the response for a session key/timestamp, and respond with that key as well as the username and password.

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