Servlet和JSP技术简述(英文翻译).docVIP

An Overview of Servlet and JSP Technology Gildas Avoine and Philippe Oechslin EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland 1.1 A Servlets Job Servlets are Java programs that run on Web or application servers, acting as a middle layer between requests coming from Web browsers or other HTTP clients and databases or applications on the HTTP server. Their job is to perform the following tasks, as illustrated in Figure 1-1. Figure 1-1 1．Read the explicit data sent by the client. The end user normally enters this data in an HTML form on a Web page. However, the data could also come from an applet or a custom HTTP