Solved Bukkit interaction with a website.

How do plugins that interact with websites, like buycraft, work? I'm interested in making my plugins interface with websites, but I don't even know where to begin. Does anyone know of a tutorial for that sort of thing, or could anyone explain how it works and give an introduction about how to set it up? Thank you!

 

I suggest you look at a Java tutorial here. This wouldn't be something from the Bukkit API. Plugins likely accomplish this through Java's method of sending and returning data to a server.

Note: You'll probably need a lot of time to understand how this works and some website knowledge beforehand

 

@0ct0berBkkitPlgins
Is there a specific tutorial you recommend, or should I search around on google? If the latter is the case, what should I search for? Thank you!

 

@srspore
Some webservices query data from a MySQL database. This way you don't need to communicate with a server, but just with a DataBase on both ends.

If you want to communicate with a server, searching for "java client server communication" could be a good start. Like this tutorial from Oracle.

Maybe there are some other ways, but this is the standard approach, as far as I can tell (not very far... ).

 

You can try to work with MySQL. This may be another language you have to 'learn', but it is not too hard and a basic understanding is enough to work with it. Java can easily submit data to and read from an sql database and websites can aswell. So you can just run a check on both ends now and then and check if the data has changed or just do it once the data is needed and grab it from the database then.