Overview Of Servlets And Javaserver Pages - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 08-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

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Overview of Servlets and JavaServer Pages

• What the Server Needs to Run Servlets and JSPs
• Working with Web Applications
• Deploying Web Applications Using wdeploy
• Deploying and Editing Web Applications with the User Interface
• Deploying Servlets and JSPs Not in Web Applications
• Configuring JVM Attributes
• Deleting Version Files
Overview of Servlets and JavaServer Pages
Enterprise Server 6.1 supports the Servlet 2.3 API specification, which allows
servlets and JSPs to be included in web applications.
A web application is a collection of servlets, JavaServer Pages, HTML documents,
and other web resources which might include image files, compressed archives,
and other data. A web application may be packaged into an archive (a WAR file) or
exist in an open directory structure.
Servlet API version 2.3 is fully backward compatible with versions
NOTE
2.2 and 2.1, so all existing servlets will continue to work without
modification or recompilation.
To develop servlets, use Sun Microsystems® Java™ Servlet API. For information
about using the Java Servlet API, see the documentation provided by Sun
Microsystems at:
http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/index.html
A JSP is a page, much like an HTML page, that can be viewed in a web browser.
However, in addition to HTML tags, it can include a set of JSP tags and directives
intermixed with Java code that extend the ability of the web page designer to
incorporate dynamic content in a page. These additional features provide
functionality such as displaying property values and using simple conditionals.
Enterprise Server 6.1 supports the JavaServer Pages (JSP) 1.1 API specification.
For information about creating JSPs, see Sun Microsystem's JavaServer Pages web
site at:
Java Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP)
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