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Introduction to Java Servlets

How Do We Use Servlets?

There are usually two steps to installing Servlet support on your Web Server. First, you need to get a Servlet engine. There are a variety of them out there, and here are but a few:

and JavaSoft has their own Java Web Server Second, if the current version of the Java Development Kit (JDK) or Java Runtime Engine (JRE) is not bundled with the servlet engine you download, you need to download the latest copy from the JavaSoft web site.

The next article will go over the process of downloading and setting up Sun's Java Web Server. Since Sun is responsible for the Java Servlet API, their web server is an unofficial defacto reference implementation of the API and is an excellent place to start exploring the many features of Java Servlets.

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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Time Management Made Easy with the Quartz Enterprise Job Scheduler
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Reverse Complement
Reverse Complement is a simple applet that converts DNA or RNA sequences into three useful formats.