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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like other Java enterprise tools, Tomcat has migrated from the original Java EE specification to Jakarta EE. Tomcat 9 and earlier were based on Java EE; Tomcat 10 and later are based on Jakarta EE.