C H A P T E R 1
Introducing JSP and Tomcat
Interactivity is what makes the Web really useful. By interacting with a remote server, you can find the information you need, keep in touch with your friends, or purchase something online. And every time you type something into a web form, an application “out there” interprets your request and prepares a web page to respond.
To understand JSP, you first need to have a clear idea of what happens when you ask your browser to view a web page, either by typing a URL into the address field of your browser or by clicking on a hyperlink. Figure 1-1 shows you how it works.
Figure 1-1. Viewing a plain ...
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