At heart, Tomcat is a servlet and JSP container: A Java (or Jakarta) servlet defines endpoints for HTTP requests and routes them to business logic code for handling. JSP, or Jakarta Server Pages ...

For this reason, a Java server that implements the Servlet specification is sometimes called a servlet container. To create a servlet, you implement the Servlet interface and deploy it inside a ...

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