Programatic admin deployment

Hi,
I want to write a client program which will perform an Admin deployment of a bundle through the admin console. Basically I want to perform the same HTTP POST that the admin console deploy.htm web page does, except I want to do it from my client program. I have not been successful in figuring out how I should invoke this and have not found any documentation. What do I write out to the POST output?

Any pointer to documentation or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Rather than trying to simulate what the admin console does, which is likely to be quite brittle as it's not a defined interface, I would consider using the Deployer MBean and a JMX client instead. Starting dm Server and attaching JConsole to it is probably the easiest way to see what operations this MBean has to offer.