Creating a local appliaction and web service

[roli]

Hi! I am new here and I am having a little trouble with my current project. I don't realy have that much experience with Java but I want to use it in one of my ideas.

My idea is basicaly some hardware that is connected to the computer, I want an application that can localy control this hardware (by simply sending serial messages). I know how to do that. What I don't know is how to create a web interface for this application. What I want is to have web interface that can be enabled in this application and can then be accessed via the internet. So I can now control the hardware remotely. The problem is how to make such an application. I have been looking here: http://netbeans.org/kb/trails/web.html to find a solutuion but I don't know what type of web service to use. I need some pointers in which direction I should go.

[jyeary]

I would recommend first looking at how to get the hardware and software working by trying to create a command line client. Then do the Java EE tutorial, and see if that answers some of your questions.


On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 5:27 PM, roli <address-removed ([email]address-removed[/email])> wrote:

[roli]

Hardware and software talking isn't a problem, since I have done it before. Main problem is a web service. I don't have an idea how to have one application that also has a simpleweb interface. And most of java tutorials for web apps look like overkill.