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 ...

Servlets were designed to allow for extension of a server providing any service. Currently, however, only HTTP and JSP page servlets are supported. In the future, a developer may be able to extend an ...

The enterprise Java community has made great strides to simplify file uploads from a web browser to a server. What was once a task that involved many cross-platform complications is now ...

You can't judge a book by its back cover. At least, that's true in the case of More Servlets and JavaServer Pages. The book is divided into five sections. Part I consists of three chapters that ...

Servlet class loading: For each servlet defined in the deployment descriptor of the Web application, the servlet container locates and loads a class of the type of the servlet. This can happen when ...

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.

When I began to write server-side web applications, there were two mainstream choices: if you wanted the program to execute quickly, you chose C, and if you wanted to write the program quickly, you ...