servlet
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- noun
- /ˈsɜrvˌlɛt/
- Specialized
- I created a new servlet to manage database interactions for the web application.
Examples
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This digital content is not freely accessible, and access to those digital materials is controlled through the Java servlet.
Academic text (2012) -
My web application has a single servlet that passes the XML it receives to an API/engine.
Blog text (25) -
Once the destroy method is called on a servlet instance, the container may not route other requests to that instance of the servlet.
Blog text (19) -
If your servlet container is very conservative about saving resources, it may destroy the servlet that is not in service for a long time.
Blog text (19) -
However, in practice, virtually every Servlet container maintains exactly one instance of each Servlet.
Blog text (19) -
This engine can run inside or outside a servlet container, and it creates, tracks, and manages sessions in its own way.
Blog text (25) -
When a request comes in for that servlet, the container would create a new instance of that servlet and perform all the life-cycle actions until serving the request again.
Blog text (19) -
Servlet containers like Tomcat are allowed by the specification to maintain a pool of Servlet objects, creating and destroying them as load goes up or down.
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The servlet processes user requests and generates dynamic web pages in my application.
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Every servlet in the system is responsible for handling specific types of HTTP requests.
How Complex
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Servlet comes from the root serve ('to help' or 'do work for') plus the small ending -let, like in booklet ('small book'). So a servlet is a 'small service' program that runs on a web server to handle requests and send responses.