Complete Introduction to Java Servlets
Java Knowledge Sharing #7
Every day, billions of bytes of data are created in this contemporary era of the internet. To obtain access to this massive quantity of data, each user must make a request to the network and wait for a response. Most of us have the supposition that all these online apps are built on web frameworks such as HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and so on. But did you know that web applications can be built on Java by utilizing a service known as Java Servlets? This article will dive deep into Java Servlets and see how this technology may be used to build a web application.
In the Servlet API, there are several interfaces and classes to choose from. Here are a few examples:
- HTTP Servlet
- Generic Servlet
- Servlet Request
- Servlet Response
Servlet and Container
A Servlet is a class that handles requests, processes them, and responds with a response.
For example, we may use a Servlet to gather user input via an HTML form, query records from a database, and dynamically build web pages.
Servlets are managed by another Java program known as a Servlet Container. When a web server application receives a request, the server forwards it to…
