Creating dynamic web pages is necessary if a web site wants to display the current state of data accurately, for example showing temperatures around the world. There are several ways to accomplish ...

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol that is used to set up, modify, and terminate a session between two endpoints. SIP can be used to set up a two-party call, a multi-party call, ...

An extension to Java that provides a programming interface (API) for implementing server-side programs written in Java (Java servlets). See servlet. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

Despite the elegance of the Servlet API, real-world servlet classes tend to have pages of code in their doGet() and doPost() methods, often with complex conditional logic. Over time, more code must be ...

We have an existing servlet that I am working on that creates a single connection in the init() method and uses it for every request. Obviously, this is not an optimal solution. I decided to implement ...

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All the cool new programming languages, like Ruby, always have compilers/interpreters and tools for Linux, and the old UNIX standbys like Tcl/Tk are still around when you need them. Why, then, is Java ...