RPC_JSON java example connecting to bitcoind

I was going to post this to
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=417.0

but I am a newbie and cannot.

Here it is:

// START OF FILE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.nio.*;
import java.lang.management.*;
import java.util.*;
import org.json.simple.*;
import org.json.simple.parser.*;

public class
json_test {

public static void
main(String[] args){
   JSONObject obj = new JSONObject();
   obj.put("method", "getinfo");
   obj.put("id", new Integer(11));

   String btc_comm = obj.toString();

   try{
      Authenticator.setDefault(new BitCoinAuthenticator());

      URL url_bcd = new URL("http://localhost:8332/");
      URLConnection yc = url_bcd.openConnection();
      yc.setDoOutput(true);
      OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(yc.getOutputStream());
      wr.write(btc_comm);
      wr.flush();

      BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
                  new InputStreamReader(
                  yc.getInputStream()));
      String inputLine;

      while((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null){
         System.out.println(inputLine);
      }
      in.close();
   } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
      System.out.println(ex);
   } catch (IOException ex) {
      System.out.println(ex);
   }
}

}

class BitCoinAuthenticator extends Authenticator {
// This method is called when a password-protected URL is accessed
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
String promptString = getRequestingPrompt();
String hostname = getRequestingHost();
InetAddress ipaddr = getRequestingSite();
int port = getRequestingPort();

String username = ""; // i have no user name in /home/your_user/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
String password = "none"; // rpcpassword=none in /home/your_user/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password.toCharArray());
}
}

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I compile with this script:

# START OF FILE
rm ./json_test.class
PS_CLASS_PATH=./lib/JSON/*
javac -classpath $PS_CLASS_PATH json_test.java
echo "Type enter \n Thanks." | more -1
# END OF FILE

And run it with this script:

# START OF FILE
PS_CLASS_PATH=./lib/JSON/*
java -cp $PS_CLASS_PATH json_test
echo "Type enter \n Thanks." | more -1
# END OF FILE

Preconditions:

1)

json-simple-1.1.1.jar

file must be in ./lib/JSON
(you can google it).

2)

bitcoind must be running and you must be able to type the command

bitcoind getinfo

and get something like:

{
"version" : 60300,
"protocolversion" : 60001,
"walletversion" : 60000,
"balance" : 0.00000000,
"blocks" : 198343,
"connections" : 8,
"proxy" : "",
"difficulty" : 2694047.95295501,
"testnet" : false,
"keypoololdest" : 1346473056,
"keypoolsize" : 101,
"paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
"errors" : ""
}

Hope it helps.

JLQ.