Servlets: Table of Contents

Overview of Servlets

Architecture of the Servlet Package

A Simple Servlet

The Example Servlets

Interacting with Clients

Requests and Responses

Handling GET and POST Requests

Threading Issues

Providing a Servlet Description

The Servlet Life Cycle

Initializing a Servlet

Destroying a Servlet

Handling Service Threads at Servlet Termination

Saving Client State

Session Tracking

Using Cookies

The servletrunner Utility

Servlet Properties

Starting servletrunner

Running Servlets

From a Browser

From an HTML Page

From another Servlet