Chapter 19. Server-Side Java: Servlets
Topics in This Chapter
The advantages of servlets over competing technologies
Free servlet and JSP engines
The basic servlet structure and life cycle
Servlet initialization parameters
Access to form data
HTTP 1.1 request headers, response headers, and status codes
The servlet equivalent of the standard CGI variables
Compression of pages generated by servlets
Cookies in servlets
Session tracking
Servlets are java technology's answer to Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programming. They are programs that run on a web server, acting as a middle layer between a request coming from a web browser or other http client and databases or applications on the http server. Their job is to:
Read any data sent by the user. This ...
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