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First Servlets

Chapter

Topics in This Chapter

  The basic structure of servlets

  A simple servlet that generates plain text

  The process of compiling, installing, and invoking servlets

  A servlet that generates HTML

  Some utilities to help build HTML

  The life cycle of servlets

  An example of reading initialization parameters

  An example that uses initialization and page modification 

dates

  Servlet debugging strategies

  A tool for interactively talking to servlets

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