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By agreement with Sun Microsystems, the reference implementation for servlets and JSP is maintained by the Apache Software Foundation. The Apache web server is an open source project, and by far the most widely used web server in the world. You can look up more information about the Apache Software Foundation at www.apache.org. Apache uses the project name “Jakarta” for their Java-specific work.
The servlet library is part of the Enterprise Edition of Java, so must be downloaded separately if you are using the Standard Edition. The servlet design underwent some rapid evolution at first with a number of versions and releases, but it has settled down now. Table 26-1 and Table 26-2 spell out the details, so you can relate ...
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