Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages™

Chapter 2. FIRST SERVLETS

Topics in This Chapter

• The basic structure of servlets

• A simple servlet that generates plain text

• The process of compiling, installing, and invoking servlets

• A servlet that generates HTML

• Some utilities to help build HTML

• The life cycle of servlets

• An example of reading initialization parameters

• An example that uses initialization and page modification dates

• Servlet debugging strategies

• A tool for interactively talking to servlets

The previous chapter showed you how to install the software you need and how to set up your development environment. Now you want to really write a few servlets. Good. This chapter shows you how, outlining the structure that almost all servlets follow, walking you through the steps required to compile ...