Chapter 1. Using and Deploying Web Applications

Topics in This Chapter

  • The purpose of Web applications
  • The structure of Web applications
  • Web application registration
  • Development and deployment strategies
  • WAR files
  • Web application data sharing

Web applications (or “Web apps”) let you bundle a set of servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP) pages, tag libraries, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents, images, style sheets, and other Web content into a single collection that can be used on any server compatible with the servlet specification. When designed carefully, Web apps can be moved from server to server or placed at different locations on the same server, all without making any changes to any of the servlets, JSP pages, or HTML files in the ...

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