Well the 2 major ways to communicate between server and client are XML and JSON I guess, besides HTML of course.I believe any "hardcore" java developer is familiar with XML. So if you are willing to deal with XML you can ask them to format their "input"(for you, or output for them) in decided XML format. Or you can ask them to read something about JSON and format to that and send as plain text to you.
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