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J. JuneauJakarta EE Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5587-2_1

1. Servlets and JavaServer Pages

Josh Juneau1 
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Hinckley, IL, USA
 

Java servlets were the first technology for producing dynamic Java web applications. Sun Microsystems released the first Java Servlet specification in 1997. Since then it has undergone tremendous change, making it more powerful and easing development more with each release. Servlets are at the base of web content for many Java EE applications. Servlets are Java classes that conform to the Java Servlet API, which allows a Java class to respond to requests. Although servlets can respond to any type of request, they are most commonly written to respond to web-based requests. A servlet must be deployed ...

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