Positng XML over HTTPS

We are trying to do the following. Can anyone help by providing any pointers as how to do it.

1. A java client will be posting XML over http(s) to the IDM server.

2. The IDM server has to do the following:

- Validate the user credentails and verify that it is an valid user on IDM

- Do some DB operations and return back a response XML

We are trying to do this by having the Java client post XML over http to a jsp hosted on the IDM server

My questions are:

1. How do i retrieve the XML data from the HTTP post (from the HTTP body)

2. The password is sent in ecrypted format, so how do i validate that against the user id being passed to verify it is a valiud user.

Thanks

[734 byte] By [simusera] at [2007-11-27 5:53:23]