Servlet Development and Deployment
In this chapter, we will discuss how to develop and deploy Java EE Servlets. Servlets allow us as application developers to implement server-side logic in Java web and enterprise applications.
The topics covered include the following:
- What is a servlet?
- Request forwarding and response redirection
- Persisting application data across requests
- Passing initialization parameters to a servlet via annotations
- Servlet filters
- Servlet listeners
- Pluggability
- Configuring web applications programmatically
- Asynchronous processing
- HTTP/2 server push support
Note
Example source code for this chapter can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Jakarta-EE-Application-Development/tree/main/ch11_src
