Overview

Servlets are the J2EE alternative to CGI programming for dynamic HTML generation. Servlets offer higher performance and access to all Java APIs including Java Beans, JDBC, and Enterprise Java Beans. Web Applications are an collection of static HTML pages, dynamic Servlet, and JSP (next lexture) files as well as the deployment descriptors that assist configuring each component of the application for a particular deployment..

Servlets and Web Applications (lecture, handouts, ppt, webbasics.war, webbasics source, wls6.1 config.xml, fileRealm.properties, startWebLogic.bat)

Resources

Sun's Main Servlet Page

Sun's JSP Page

Servlet Downloads and Specifications

Writing Web Application Deployment Descriptors
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs60/programming/webappdeployment.html

Using Weblogic HTTP Servlets

Writing a Web Application