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Introduction to Java Servlets

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What Are Servlets?

A Bit of History

Why Use Servlets?

What About Perl or Microsoft ASP?

How Do We Use Servlets?

What Are Servlets?

Servlets provide the means through which Web Applications can be written in Java. What are Web Applications? Web Applications allow a web site to be dynamic rather than straight static pages. In other words, Servlets transform a web site with plain text and images into a rich interactive environment for the user.

Amazon.com is a high profile example of this. Amazon has a proprietary "Web Store" application that they use to sell books and compact discs online.

The attractiveness of such applications is that they are built on the foundations of the World Wide Web. Thus, these applications can be run anywhere in the world at any time and are completely cross platform. All you need to run them is a Web Browser.

Gunther Birznieks contributes to JavaBoutique's Web/Networking column. Gunther currently works for Barclays Capital in London, one of the leading global investment banks in Europe and has previously worked as a senior computer scientist in the Human Genome Project. Gunther is also known for writing several books on Web Programming (Perl, CGI, Java) as well as for co-creating Extropia with Selena Sol. Extropia is one of the best known public domain web programming archives Email: gunther@extropia.com.

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