Page directive is used to specify a number of page specific attributes such as content type, page encoding, classes to import and buffering model etc.  A translation unit can contain more than one instance of page directive, in any order, anywhere and all attributes will be applied together to the whole translation unit. However there are few exceptions.

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GenericServlet class defines a generic protocol independent servlet.  It is protocol independent in the sense it can be extended to provide implementation of any protocol like FTP, SMTP etc.  Servlet API comes with HttpServlet class which implements HTTP protocol.  Generally when developing web application, you will never need to write a servlet that extends GenericServlet. Most of the Servlets in your application will extend HttpServlet class to handle web requests.

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Other useful resources on Applet servlet communication.

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Other useful resources on Servlet file upload.

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This tutorial provides step by step instructions to setup the development environment required to test various servlet examples given throughout all the tutorials. This tutorial will also be helpful when you start practicing servlets yourself.

List of required softwares:

Note: this tutorial explains how to install required software on your windows based PC only.

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This tutorial provides brief explanation of classes and interfaces of Servlet API.This tutorial is not meant to be a comprehensive reference to Servlet API. But you will learn which classes and interfaces are included in Servlet API and what job they do.

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This tutorial explains the Servlet interface and Servlet life cycle. A servlet example is given at the end which demonstrates the life cycle of a servlet.

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You have learned about J2EE web containers,J2EE web application structure and basics of Java Servlets in previous Servlet tutorials. This Servlet tutorial provides a very simple servlet example.

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Now you have the basic understanding of the HTTP protocol, web containers, and J2EE web application structure. Before you start learning Servlet API, this tutorial provides the basic understanding of the Java Servlets.

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