Some advice for a Newbie?

I'm a real newbie to Java. I just started playing around with it last week.
I am exploring the possibility of using Java to download data from the internet - one site in particular.
At this website I am required to enter data into two textboxes (an account number and meter number). The website then gives me a table of electricity usage for that account. I would like to automate this process.
I have looked at Sun's tutorial on Java and the internet and used one of its programs on my target website, but so far have only been able to return the html for the data input page.
Is what I am trying to do within the realm of possibility? If so, can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thank you for any advice you are able to give.

it's definitely within the realm of possibility. You need to submit a request to the website your connecting to based on the value in the action field of the form you are currently downloading.
so, if you are contacting www.madeup.com, and their form tag says <FORM action="/cgi-bin/form.pl>
then you've got to make a url connection to www.madeup.com/cgi-bin/form.pl
next, you've got to see if they want you to use the GET or the POST format for summiting your data. That is also indicated in the form tag. For GET, you can just append variables to your query, eg
www.madeup.com/.../form.pl?user=fred&pwd=ned
for POST, you've got to submit data with the header fields

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girrrl wrote:
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ADAM BURTON wrote:
> Hello, I have been looking through some of the
documentation on the Adobe web
> site and I have read several posts that have answered
some of my questions but
> I just want to be certain that Contribute is the product
that I need, or rather
> my client needs, for a web site that I am making. Thank
you very much for any
> advice that you can give, I apologise if my questions
are tedious and you have
> answered them before, by all means refer me to another
post that is relevant to
> my questions.
>
> Um... I am making a web site in Dreamweaver. Can I
upload the web site in the
> same way as I would if I was not using Contribute and
then allow someone else
> to come along and edit the page using this software? Or
put another way; can
> you use contribute to edit any page on the web providing
you have the
> appropriate access?
>
> I read in another post that the designer does not have
to own Contribute, only
> the client who will be editing the site does. What I
want to make sure about is
> that as the designer I will not have to do anything
different to what I would
> normally do and all of the Contribute use is at their
end.
>
> Thank you very much for your help. It is much
appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Adam.
>
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Daybyday wrote:
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I'm going to start a financial project. It's a software that basically will do a lot of math calculation. It will be developed using java in client/server architteture, with a "web server" (like BEA) and a browser as client (well I really summarize in few steps).
Anyway my question is: I would like create a cluster of computer to share the power calculation, is BEA able to do that? I mean if I start a big calc which use 60% of cpu power, is bea able to share, if an example I have 3 computer, 20% for each computer?
Can you please advice me which product I have to use?
thanks a lot
nibe

Sounds like a "grid computing" style problem to me: You essentially want to solve a single complex problem by parallelizing the algorithm and recombining the constituent partial results to complete the result. The right tool for the job depends a lot on the specifics of the algorithm and how amenable it is to parallelization of various sorts. For instance, if you are trying to do real time calculations on parallel incoming streams of data, you might want to look at WebLogic Event Server. If you are doing a classic grid calculation, where the parallelization is in the algorithm itself, you might look at any of the Grid toolkits available in the open source community, or commercial products sold by various vendors that do this kind of parallelization and workload scheduling. If is is simply a matter of distributing the load across processing nodes of like kind, you should be able to do this with a workload balancer like we have in the upcoming WebLogic Operation Control, or simply in a WebLogic cluster.
Hope that helps a little.
S~

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