Chapter 7. Web Servers, Server-Side Java, and More
Inside an HTTP Server
Common Gateway Interface and CGI Scripts
Servlets
Dynamic Documents
A Servlet Version of the Featured App
Java Server Pages
Multipurpose Servers
What if your normal Web server was capable of providing dynamic network content? If it could go out and connect to other distributed objects, using solutions from earlier in this book, it would be able to funnel information to a client without the client even once knowing of the machinery behind the scenes. So far we have discussed alternatives that have brought networked computing to the client side while creating specific client applications to accept that information. With the Java Web Server, a servlet, in essence a server-side applet, ...
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