Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond to ...

For example, a browser may submit a request for an airline schedule, and the servlet will fetch the data from the database and format the reply as an HTML table. Also, the browser may submit a filled ...

Servlets were designed to allow for extension of a server providing any service. Currently, however, only HTTP and JSP page servlets are supported. In the future, a developer may be able to extend an ...

Oracle became stewards of the Java platform as a by-product of their acquisition of Sun Microsystems. But looking back, it seems that the Java Platform has been more of a burden than a blessing.

When I began to write server-side web applications, there were two mainstream choices: if you wanted the program to execute quickly, you chose C, and if you wanted to write the program quickly, you ...

Servlet class loading: For each servlet defined in the deployment descriptor of the Web application, the servlet container locates and loads a class of the type of the servlet. This can happen when ...

The enterprise Java community has made great strides to simplify file uploads from a web browser to a server. What was once a task that involved many cross-platform complications is now ...

You can't judge a book by its back cover. At least, that's true in the case of More Servlets and JavaServer Pages. The book is divided into five sections. Part I consists of three chapters that ...

It is important to understand that the "init(ServletConfig)" method of the Servlet is called by the Servlet Container when the servlet is initialized. It is the Servlet Container that passes the ...