Plan of this Lecture Set

• Review HTML forms and associated HTTP requests.

• Briefly describe traditional CGI programming.

• Detailed discussion of Java servlets:

  • Deploying Tomcat as a standalone Web server.
  • Simple servlets.
  • The servlet life cycle.
  • Servlet requests and responses. More on the HTTP protocol.
  • Approaches to session tracking. Handling cookies.
  • The servlet session-tracking API.

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