Special Edition Using Java™ Server Pages and Servlets

Chapter 13. Core Servlet Components

In this chapter

• The ServletRequest Class

• The HttpServletRequest Class

• The ServletContext Class

• The ServletResponse Class

• The HttpServletResponse Class

• The ServletInputStream Class

• The ServletOutputStream Class

• The HttpSession Class

• The Cookie Class

• Creating a New Cookie

The ServletRequest Class

A ServletRequest object contains information about the request from the browser. In addition to obvious things such as form variables, the request object can give you information about the kinds of languages that the browser accepts and the character encoding used in the request. ServletRequest is actually a Java interface, not a class. Because you don't have to create the request object, however, it doesn't ...