Chapter 21. JavaScript Basics
The last 20 chapters have demonstrated server-side programming using servlets and JSP pages. In this type of programming, the server takes all the workload. Because a popular web site can attract a large number of hits per hour, scalability is important. Otherwise, your web site can get knocked out several times a week by the sheer number of visitors it receives. You can make your site more scalable a number of different ways, one of which is to reduce your server’s workload by moving some of the processing to the client side—namely, in the web browser.
To understand this point, consider the case in which you have an ...
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