SINCE THE INTRODUCTION of JSP technology, two architectures have emerged for building server-side Web applications in Java. The first involves JSPs only, and the second uses JSPs and Servlets together ...

HTTP is a stateless protocol optimized for request-reply style text transfer. An attempt to engage it for generic use, such as may be required by common cooperation metaphors like stateful session, ...

Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond to ...

If you write Web applications in Java, the servlet is your best friend. Whether you write Java ServerPages (JSP) or plain servlets, you are both at the servlet’s mercy and the lucky recipient of what ...