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Review: Servlets

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  2001 2003 Marty Hall, Larry Brown http://www.corewebprogramming.com

Review: Getting Started

Servlets are efficient, portable, powerful, 

and widely accepted in industry

Regardless of deployment server, run a free 

server on your desktop for development

Getting started:

Set your CLASSPATH

Servlet and JSP JAR files

Top of your package hierarchy

Put class files in proper location

.../WEB INF/classes with servlets 2.2

Use proper URL; default is 

http://host/servlet/ServletName

Download existing servlet first time

Start with HelloWWW from 

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