Re: Why Servlet?

Nic Ferrier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sun.servlet
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Jayprakash_Gonella <[email protected]> writes:

>      I have a question. Servlets were the first j2ee technology to
> have been designed, even before JSPs? Can somebody throw some
> rationale on the part of Sun to have done so?

J2EE hadn't even been thought of when servlets were designed. The
servlet API is now 8 or 9 years old.

Servlets were a good answer to some of the problems of CGIs. Some of
the issues with CGIs that servlets dealt with have now been fixed.


Nic

http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk/nics-articles/servlet-api-toothyness.html

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