What is Servlet Container?
Servlet container — The piece of software which runs the servlets. The servlet container can be either: • a standalone application which just displays servlets and does not talk to anything else. This is not really a practical solution but may be great thing for debugging/testing; • an integrated part of the Web Server, i.e., servlet container runs in the same process as Web Server, and has access to all internals of the web server and to its environment variables. This is often the case when Web server is written in Java. • a separate piece of software which talks to a Web Server (or some other server) using some agreed upon protocol. In this case, the Web server is a client, and the servlet container is a server. The Web Server takes requests from browsers, looks at them, and if they are requests to run servlets (or JSPs) it passes them to the servlet?JSP container using some communication/data exchange protocol. The servlet container runs the servlet (it may need to compile the ser
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