Servlet basics: · Servlet basically introduced by sun Microsystem. · Servlets provide a component-based, platform-independent method for building Web-based applications, without the performance limitations of CGI programs. Servlets have access to the entire family of Java APIs, including the JDBC API to access enterprise databases. · A Servlet is a specialized Java class that runs on a web server. · Servlets work on a request - response programming model i.e. they accept requests from the clients, generate responses dynamically and send the responses in a format such as html to the clients/browsers. A Servlet’s Job: · Read explicit data sent by client(form data) · Read implicit data sent by client(request headers) · Generate the results · Send the explicit data to client(status codes and response headers). S Servlets: F. For executing the servlets, the web server requires t