Servlets

© 2010 Marty Hall

Servlet Basics
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The basic structure of servlets
A simple servlet that generates plain text
A servlet that generates HTML
Servlets and packages
Some utilities that help build HTML
The servlet life cycle
Servlet debugging strategies

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A Servlet’s Job
• Read explicit data sent by client (form data)
• Read implicit data sent by client
(request headers)
• Generate the results th • Send the explicit data back to client (HTML)
• Send the implicit data to client th (status codes and response headers)

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A Servlet That Generates Plain
Text (HelloWorld
Text (HelloWorld.java) import java.io.*; import javax import javax.servlet.*;
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