In “Servlet 2.3: New Features Exposed,” I introduced the changes coming in the Servlet API 2.3 and gave a short tutorial on the new servlet filter model. In this follow-on article, I’ll dig deeper ...

Creating dynamic web pages is necessary if a web site wants to display the current state of data accurately, for example showing temperatures around the world. There are several ways to accomplish ...

Despite the elegance of the Servlet API, real-world servlet classes tend to have pages of code in their doGet() and doPost() methods, often with complex conditional logic. Over time, more code must be ...

Web applications conforming to the Servlet specification make good components: If you follow the specification right, at the end you can package Web applications into a .war file and then deploy them.