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Jakarta Servlet

Jakarta Servlet

Jakarta EE programming language class Jakarta ServletOriginal authorPavni DiwanjiDeveloperEclipse FoundationReleaseDecember 1996; 29 years ago (1996-12)Stable release6.1 / March 28, 2024; 2 years ago (2024-03-28) Written inJavaPlatformJakarta EESize2.56 MBTypeSoftware component for Web APILicenseEclipse Public LicenseWebsitejakarta.ee/specifications/servlet/Repositorygithub.com/jakartaee/servlet Life of a JSP file A Jakarta Servlet, formerly Java Servlet is a Java software component that extends the capabilities of a server. Although servlets can respond to many types of requests, they most commonly implement web containers for hosting web applications on web servers and thus qualify as a server-side servlet web API. Such web servlets are the Java counterpart to other dynamic web content technologies such as PHP and ASP.NET. Introduction A Jakarta Servlet is a Java class in Jakarta EE that conforms to the Jakarta Servlet API, a standard for implementing Java classes that respond to requests. Servlets could in principle communicate over any client–server protocol, but they are most often used with HTTP. In principle, any servlets can extend the GenericServlet class; however, reali