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Servlets | Servlet Tutorial
Servlet technology is used to create a web application (resides at server side and generates a dynamic web page).
Servlet technology is robust and scalable because of java language. Before Servlet, CGI (Common Gateway Interface)
scripting language was common as a server-side programming language. However, there were many disadvantages to
this technology. We have discussed these disadvantages below.
There are many interfaces and classes in the Servlet API such as Servlet, GenericServlet, HttpServlet, ServletRequest,
ServletResponse, etc.
What is a Servlet?
Servlet can be described in many ways, depending on the context.
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Servlet is a technology which is used to create a web application.
Servlet is an API that provides many interfaces and classes including documentation.
Servlet is an interface that must be implemented for creating any Servlet.
Servlet is a class that extends the capabilities of the servers and responds to the incoming requests. It can respond to any requests.
Servlet is a web component that is deployed on the server to create a dynamic web page.
Do You Know?
What is the web application and what is the difference between Get and Post request?
What information is received by the web server if we request for a Servlet?
How to run servlet in Eclipse, MyEclipse and Netbeans IDE?
What are the ways for servlet collaboration and what is the difference between RequestDispatcher and sendRedirect() method?
What is the difference between ServletConfig and ServletContext interface?
How many ways can we maintain the state of a user? Which approach is mostly used in web development?
How to count the total number of visitors and whole response time for a request using Filter?
How to run servlet with annotation?
How to create registration form using Servlet and Oracle database?
How can we upload and download the file from the server?
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What is a web application?
A web application is an application accessible from the web. A web application is composed of web components like Servlet, JSP, Filter, etc.
and other elements such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The web components typically execute in Web Server and respond to the HTTP request.
CGI (Common Gateway Interface)
CGI technology enables the web server to call an external program and pass HTTP request information to the external program to process the
request. For each request, it starts a new process.
Disadvantages of CGI
There are many problems in CGI technology:
1. If the number of clients increases, it takes more time for sending the response.
2. For each request, it starts a process, and the web server is limited to start processes.
3. It uses platform dependent language e.g. C
, C++
, perl
.
Advantages of Servlet
There are many advantages of Servlet over CGI. The web container creates threads for handling the multiple requests to the Servlet. Threads
have many benefits over the Processes such as they share a common memory area, lightweight, cost of communication between the threads
are low. The advantages of Servlet are as follows:
1. Better performance: because it creates a thread for each request, not process.
2. Portability: because it uses Java language.
3. Robust: JVM
manages Servlets, so we don't need to worry about the memory leak, garbage collection
, etc.
4. Secure: because it uses java language.
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Servlet Tutorial Attribute in Servlet Servlet Miscellaneous
What is Servlet Attribute in Servlet ServletInputStream
Web Terminology ServletOutputStream
Servlet Advance
Web Terminology Example to write image
Session Tracking
Website: Static Dynamic Annotation Servlet
HTTP Session Techniques
SingleThreadModel
HTTP Requests 1) Cookies in Servlet SSI
Get vs Post Cookies: Login & Logout
Development
Container 2) Hidden Form Field
Registration Example
Server: Web Application 3) URL Rewriting
4) HttpSession Fetching records
Content Type
Session: Login & Logout Improving Performance
Servlet API
Uploading file
Servlet Interface Event and Listener
Downloading file
GenericServlet
Event and Listener Servlet Sending Email
HttpServlet
ServletContextEvent
Write data to PDF
Servlet Life Cycle
HttpSessionEvent Login Example
Servlet Example
ServletRequestEvent
Writing Image
How servlet works?
ServletContext AttributeEvent
War File Servlet Basics Quiz
HttpSessionBindingEvent
welcome-file-list Servlet Quiz
ServletRequestAttributeEvent
Load on startup Servlet Basics Quiz-1
Servlet Filter
Servlet with IDE Servlet Basics Quiz-2
What is Filter
Servlet Basics Quiz-3
servlet in Eclipse
Authentication Filter
Servlet Basics Quiz-4
servlet in Myeclipse
FilterConfig Servlet Basics Quiz-5
servlet in Netbeans
Useful examples
Servlet Advance Quiz
ServletRequest
Servlet CRUD
Servlet Advance Quiz-1
ServletRequest
CRUD Example
Servlet Advance Quiz-2
Servlet Collaboration
Servlet Pagination Servlet Advance Quiz-3
RequestDispacher Servlet Advance Quiz-4
Pagination Example
sendRedirect
Servlet Misc. Quiz
ServletConfig
Servlet Misc. Quiz-1
ServletConfig Servlet Misc. Quiz-2
Servlet Misc. Quiz-3
ServletContext
Interview Questions
ServletContext
Servlet Interview Questions
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