Servlet tutorials

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ServletRequest Is one of the most important Interface of Servlet API. This tutorial explains the basics of ServletRequest interface and the most widely used methods defined in ServletRequest and HttpServletRequest.

This tutorial explains how to handle HTML form submission using servlet. You will learn how to handle Get and Post request, how to process form parameters.

This tutorial explains how to create a file download servlet.

GenericServlet defines a generic protocol independent Servlet. GenericServlet class is the base class of HttpServlet class.

This tutorial covers following topics.

1. How to write your own servlets that extends GenericServlet.
2. How to initialize the servlet by overriding init() method.
3. How to handle requests by overriding service() method
4. Override the destroy() method.
5. How to access servlet intialization parameters using ServletConfig object.
6. How to write the log to server log file.

This tutorial explains how to send data to a servlet from an applet and receive response. Concept explained in this tutorial can also be used for applet jsp communication.

This servlet file upload tutorial explains how to upload files using Apache commons file upload API.

This tutorial explains how to setup the development environment to compile, develope and deploy servlets and Java server pages (JSP).

This tutorial covers following topics

1. How to install Java SDK on windows platform.
2. How to install Tomcat web container on windows platform.
3. How to set the JAVA_HOME, Path and CLASSPATH environment variables.
4. How to start and shut down the tomcat server.

This tutorial provides brief explanation of classes and interfaces of Servlet API, focusing particularly on the javax.servlet package.

This tutorial explains the Servlet life cycle.

This tutorial gives basic introduction to Java Servlets.

Servlet specification defines the directory structure for deployment and packaging of web applications. When developing web applications with Servlets and JSP you must follow the directory structure. This tutorial explains how to organize the directory structure. where to put the compiled servlet classes and jar files.

Knowledge of any J2EE web container is required to develop a J2EE based web application using Servlets and JSP, this tutorial gives the introduction to the J2EE web container.