Copyright © 2001 Qusay H. Mahmoud
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What is a Servlet?
lA server-side technology
lDesigned to overcome some limitations of existing
technologies (e.g. CGI is stateless)
lCharacteristics:
–A light-weight task that can be executed as a thread
– A servlet can remain in
memory (a CGI script terminates when it finished)
lAdvantages:
–A servlet can service multiple client requests
–Can
handle multiple clients without reloading/reinitialization