Ok, so what - in slightly more detail - is a Java Servlet? A Java Servlet is a Java class that subclasses from class HttpServlet and usually overrides the doGet (or doPost) method. These methods will ...

Creating dynamic web pages is necessary if a web site wants to display the current state of data accurately, for example showing temperatures around the world. There are several ways to accomplish ...

JSP stands for Java Servlet Pages, a shorthand way of writing simple Servlets, more akin to other web scripting languages like PHP and ASP. A JSP file basically contains HTML, but with embedded JSP ...

Oracle became stewards of the Java platform as a by-product of their acquisition of Sun Microsystems. But looking back, it seems that the Java Platform has been more of a burden than a blessing.

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 ...

The name “servlet” gives an idea of a small server whose purpose is basically to receive HTTP requests, process them and respond to the client. This response can be HTML, an image, a json file etc.