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 ...

Java servlets extend the capabilities of Java Servers by extending the functionality of the underlying server communication model. Java servlets may come into play if your company has any sort of ...

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 ...

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 ...