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Java Servlet Programming
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Java Servlet Programming

by Jason Hunter
November 1998
Intermediate to advanced
526 pages
14h 38m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Support for Servlets

Like Java itself, servlets were designed for portability. Servlets are supported on all platforms that support Java, and servlets work with all the major web servers.[1] Java servlets, as defined by the Java Software division of Sun Microsystems (formerly known as JavaSoft), are the first standard extension to Java. This means that servlets are officially blessed by Sun and are part of the Java language, but they are not part of the core Java API. Therefore, although they may work with any Java Virtual Machine (JVM), servlet classes need not be bundled with all JVMs. More information about the Java Extension Framework is available at http://java.sun.com/ products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/extensions .

To make it easy for you to develop servlets, Sun has made publicly available a set of classes that provide basic servlet support. The javax.servlet and javax.servlet.http packages constitute this Servlet API. Version 2.0 of these classes comes bundled with the Java Servlet Development Kit (JSDK) for use with the Java Development Kit version 1.1 and above; the JDSK is available for download from http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/. [2]

Many web server vendors have incorporated these classes into their servers to provide servlet support, and several have also provided additional functionality. Sun’s Java Web Server, for instance, includes a proprietary interface to the server’s security features.

It doesn’t much matter where you get the servlet classes, as long as you ...

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