Best way to exchange information between 2 different servers in java

Question

I have my server side plugin, i have to send some value from my server to another server hosted on 2 different locations. 1. Server Side plugin - Hosted on some server i dont know where it is. 2. Web Application - is my application and hosted location i know.

How to exchange data from that server to my application. We have the privilege to deploy the plugins in some folder but i dont know where it is hosted. But i can use approach to send data.

Please let me know!!!

Regards, Chandan

Answer 1

There are many solutions to exchange data between different servers:

• Shared database
• Shared filesystem
• exposure of restful web services
• exposure of soap web services
• rmi
• socket connection
• shared application that operates as a bridge between the two servers

Each solution has pro and cons. Some needs polling (shared database and filesystem for example), some others not. Some needs just an exposure of a port (web services, socket, web services) other needs additional requirements (for example a shared database needs a database and that database must be visible to both applications).

Generally if you need very fast communication with high traffic load the best solution is a socket (as for client server in databases for example). Otherwyse choose a solution more human readable and simpler to code.