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Servlets

Servlets allow for the creation of dynamic web applications and reside on the server-side. Servlets provide interfaces and classes to handle HTTP requests and responses. Servlets improve upon earlier CGI technology by using multi-threading rather than creating new processes for each request, making servlets more efficient with better performance, portability, robustness, and security.

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Servlets

Servlets allow for the creation of dynamic web applications and reside on the server-side. Servlets provide interfaces and classes to handle HTTP requests and responses. Servlets improve upon earlier CGI technology by using multi-threading rather than creating new processes for each request, making servlets more efficient with better performance, portability, robustness, and security.

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Servlets

• Servlet technology is used to create a web application


(resides at server side and generates a dynamic web
page).
• Servlet technology is robust and scalable because of
java language. Before Servlet, CGI (Common Gateway
Interface) scripting language was common as a server-
side programming language. However, there were
many disadvantages to this technology. We have
discussed these disadvantages below.
• There are many interfaces and classes in the Servlet
API such as Servlet, GenericServlet, HttpServlet,
ServletRequest, ServletResponse, etc.
What is a Servlet?
• Servlet can be described in many ways, depending on
the context.
• Servlet is a technology which is used to create a web
application.
• Servlet is an API that provides many interfaces and
classes including documentation.
• Servlet is an interface that must be implemented for
creating any Servlet.
• Servlet is a class that extends the capabilities of the
servers and responds to the incoming requests. It can
respond to any requests.
• Servlet is a web component that is deployed on the
server to create a dynamic web page.
What is a web application?

• A web application is an application accessible


from the web. A web application is composed
of web components like Servlet, JSP, Filter, etc.
and other elements such as HTML, CSS, and
JavaScript. The web components typically
execute in Web Server and respond to the
HTTP request.
•
CGI (Common Gateway Interface)
• CGI technology enables the web server to call an
external program and pass HTTP request
information to the external program to process
the request. For each request, it starts a new
process.
• Disadvantages of CGI
• There are many problems in CGI technology:
– If the number of clients increases, it takes more time
for sending the response.
– For each request, it starts a process, and the web
server is limited to start processes.
– It uses platform dependent language e.g. C, C++, perl.
Advantages of Servlet
• There are many advantages of Servlet over CGI.
The web container creates threads for handling
the multiple requests to the Servlet. Threads
have many benefits over the Processes such as
they share a common memory area, lightweight,
cost of communication between the threads are
low. The advantages of Servlet are as follows:
– Better performance: because it creates a thread for
each request, not process.
– Portability: because it uses Java language.
– Robust: JVM manages Servlets, so we don't need to
worry about the memory leak, garbage collection, etc.
– Secure: because it uses java language.

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