What is the main purpose of Servlet? Why it is developed in Java?

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akantilal

  • Jun 12th, 2007
 

Servlet Technology is an implementation of the CGI standard, much better than that. It allows you to create dynamic web applications as opposed to the static HTML.

Since it was developed by Sun Microsystems, it has been developed in Java.

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sampra

  • Mar 4th, 2008
 

Servlet Technology is an implementation of the CGI standard, much better than that. It allows you to create dynamic web applications as opposed to the static HTML.

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Praveen.kb

  • Sep 4th, 2009
 

Web server is not that much intelligent to handle requests where dynamic data to be inserted. In this case, Web servers need helper classes to accomlish the same.
CGI is also widely used like Servlets. But it is having some limitations such as, Heavy Weight Component decreases the efficiency of the server.  

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