Day 12. Servlets

On Day 11, “JavaMail,” you worked on integrating JavaMail into your applications. This built on the previous chapters that covered the Java Message System and Message-Driven Beans, and you have now completed this book's coverage of asynchronous messaging in J2EE.

Today, you will start to work on the new topic area—providing a Web interface to your application. You will start by using Java servlets with a Web server to handle HTTP requests. These servlets will generate HTML responses to be displayed by using a browser. In today's lesson, you will study

  • The power of Java servlets and when to use them

  • The supporting technologies, namely HTTP and HTML

  • How to create and track HTTP sessions

  • How to develop a Web application using servlets, ...

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