[jdom-interest] JDOM via Servlet

[Jon Baer]

> > I seem to continue to be running up against a brick wall trying to pass XML
> > to a servlet and then building a JDOM Document (see SAXBuilder.buid()
> > weirdness and second try).  I have decided to ignore my entire back-end

I think I found your problem maybe(?)  I was browsing Java site for some bugs and took a
look @ the Top 25 Bugs and it lists it here:

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4186170.html
POST to servlet fails - connection reset by peer

Seems like alot of people had the same problem, there was one suggestion which I copied
below.

- Jon

The problem can be fixed by setting the EXACT response
                                        length with response.setContentLength(), prior
to writing
                                        anything to the printWriter.

                                        As this length is not usually known in advance,
the
                                        following workaround can be used instead:

                                            // Print in memory using a
PrintWriter->StringWriter
                                        chain
                                            StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
                                            PrintWriter  pw = new PrintWriter(sw);

                                            // Generate the HTML...
                                            your_methods_here(pw);

                                            // Get the memory image of the generated
text
                                            StringBuffer buffered_response =
sw.getBuffer();

                                            // Say we return HTML text

response.setContentType("text/html");

                                            // The more important thing: give the exact
response
                                        length

response.setContentLength(buffered_response.length());

                                            // Then write all at once
                                            ServletOutputStream os =
response.getOutputStream();
                                            os.print(buffered_response.toString());
                                            os.close();

                                            // Note: This is not memory-efficient  since
os.print
                                        (String) will
                                            //       in turn make a second copy of the
buffered
                                        bytes.