Example Servlets

• A Servlet Generating Plain Text.
  • Line 13: Note the similarity between out.println and System.out.println. The latter writes to standard output; the former writes to the response object.
  • Line 7: If a Servlet does not need to receive parameters from the client, it can ignore the HttpServletRequest object.
• A Servlet Generating HTML.
  • Line 12: Required if response content is HTML.
  • Lines 15-19: Constructs the lines of a web page.
  • Line 20: Explicitly closes output stream.
  • Lines 23-25: Provides Servlet documentation (overrides method in GenericServlet class).