Chapter 11. Servlets
This book has made many references to servlets. In particular, it has been repeatedly noted that a JSP file is turned into a servlet at translation time and that the resulting servlet is run at request time. This means that JSPs and servlets are the same thing.
As discussed in Chapter 1, a servlet is a small class that may be thought of as a dynamic extension to a Web server or application server. CGIs, by contrast, are external programs started by the Web server. This change from external to internal extensions has a number of advantages, chief of which is performance. Because a servlet is loaded only once, the first time it is needed and subsequently, it resides in the same Java virtual machine (JVM) as the Web server or ...
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