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 ...

To understand how to do proper application server development, you need to understand how the two basic containers of an application server work, namely the Web container and the EJB container. This ...

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On Oct. 20, 2000, Sun Microsystems published the “Proposed Final Draft” of the Servlet API 2.3 specification. (See Resources for a link to the formal specification.) Although the spec was published by ...

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