Thread: General help with servlets

Hi all,
I am trying to deploy an android application that connects to a java server. I am doing an apointments system, so the client asks for an apointments with a specific office/doctor.
What i did, was to create a java server, using object for the offices, and via sockets it communicates with the android client.

The problem is that when i tried to use my (very demo still) app on my phone and sent it to some friends for testing, i coulnt find a way to have my server on the internet.
So I changed to (or trying to) servlet. But i have no idea how to do a client server application with servlets. All tutorials i have seen are more on website clients, but thats not what i need.

Can someone help me on this one pls?

thanks alot, ilias

I would like to sent it to friends for testing, so local ip is out of the question,
I think that my router is too cheap, and probable it blocks ddns. I tried to use them i was getting a connection error.

Originally Posted by Norm

Using servlets won't help other devices to connect to your server where the servlets are hosted.

What do you mean by that?
that i cant use servlet to comunicate with clients? Or that i cant use servlet to communicate with my server. I guess the later can not be done, and i will have to rewrite everything for the servlet.

Originally Posted by Norm

Some routers can be configured to pass incoming requests to one of the computers on the LAN.

I finally managed that!!!
At least i can do some proper testing now. but still if i want to put my app out there, i will need some kind of server. I will have to look into that.