Servlet 3.1

The Servlet 3.1 Specification was developed under JSR 340. This section gives you only an overview of improvements in the API. The complete document specification (for more information) can be downloaded from http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr340/index.html.

What is a Servlet?

There was a time in computer science when we could not create dynamic web pages. At that time, users had access only to static web pages, such as in a newspaper. Among the many proposed solutions, the first Java solution was the Servlet, a revolutionary technology used to extend the capabilities of servers based on the request-response programming model. It enabled web servers to handle http requests and dynamically generate web pages according to user parameters. Since then, technologies have advanced a lot in order to facilitate the development of web applications. However, the Servlet technology remains the most widely used Java solution for processing of HTTP requests/responses in the...