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Posted by John Bokma on 07/28/06 21:15
"Navodit" <kaushik2@uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a very basic question regd retrieving information from website
> using a scripting language:
>
> Basically I am working on the development of a database where a user
> enters an address (street, city, state, zipcode). Based on the user
> input of the address, I need to dynamically determine the latitude and
> longitude of that address from the internet. One such website was :
> http://stevemorse.org/jcal/latlon.php where we enter the street, city,
> state and zipcode etc and the webpage returns the latitude and
> longitude.
How often is this going to happen, and does the owner of the site allow
you to do repeated automatic requests?
> I need to retrieve this information and update the database
> accordingly. My question is: Should this retrieval be done using Perl
> or Php or thru any other language ? What wd be the best way to
> incorporate this into my Java application ? Any help/hints wd be
> appreciated ! Thanks
IMO, if you are using Java, use Java. Otherwise you end up calling a
Perl/PHP program from Java, and processing the result of such a program.
--
John Bokma Freelance software developer
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Experienced Perl programmer: http://castleamber.com/
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