The basics of servlets are similar to other Java classes. You create a new servlet class by inheriting from the servlet parent class, and override the parent methods. To initialize a servlet in ...

If your company develops Java applications on the Web, you may have to use a Java server to handle incoming Web requests through HTML documents. When handling requests for old information, you can ...

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 ...

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 ...

We have an existing servlet that I am working on that creates a single connection in the init() method and uses it for every request. Obviously, this is not an optimal solution. I decided to ...

The Rise of Servlets While client-side Java was failing to thrive as expected, another use of Java – on the server side – was quietly building momentum. Today, Java application servers power a ...