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Foil 37 Java Servlets

From Overview of JDBC and its use with Microsoft Access ARL Database Tutorial -- February 98. by Nancy McCracken(Sangetta Aggarwal, Udayan Parvate, Tom Pulikal)

Servlets are protocol- and platform-independent server side components that can be dynamically loaded like applets

or can be considered as server side counterpart to applets

or Java application components which are loaded, on demand

Servlets differ from applets in that they are faceless ( without any graphics )

can be invoked in many ways one of which of the form

http://host-name:port/servlet/servlet-name