Send an xml string to a url Requires 5 jars: commons-httpclient-3.0.1.jar , httpclient-4.0-alpha2.jar , httpcore-4.0-alpha6.jar , commons-codec-1.7.jar , commons-logging-1.1.2.jar

Java post

  	 /**
	 * Actually takes care of posting data to a service
	 * @param xml The xml data in the form of a Java String
	 * @param url The address to post data to
	 */
	private static boolean postData(String xml, String url){
		
		 //PostMethod post=new PostMethod();
		 HttpPost pst=null;

		 try {
			 //build headers and body of post request
			 pst=new HttpPost(url);
			 StringEntity requestEntity = new StringEntity(xml);
			 pst.setEntity(requestEntity);
			 pst.setHeader("Content-type",
	                "text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1");
			 
			 DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();	  
			 //TODO use this response to give our client a message
			 

			 HttpResponse response=httpClient.execute(pst);
			 int statusCode=response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
			 return statusCode>=400&&statusCode<=499;
			 
	}catch (org.apache.http.HttpException| URISyntaxException|IOException | InterruptedException e) {
		e.printStackTrace();
		return false;
	} 
}