[LUNI] Accessing a WebService or Servlet via Unix scripts...

[Andrew Close]

anyone know of a utility or way of making a call to a WebService or
Java Servlet directly from the *nix cli?

we're using a third party application that has no API or real way of
communicating with anything else going on in the system.  however it
can call out to (apparently) any Unix script.  initial thought was to
have the script execute a small Java application that sends messages
and then garbage collects; but, it would be much nicer to make a call
to a centralized service.

any thoughts?