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1、AnOverviewofServletandJSPTechnologyGildasAvoineandPhilippeOechslinEPFL,Lausanne,Switzerland1.1AServlet'sJobServletsareJavaprogramsthatrunonWeborapplicationservers,actingasamiddlelayerbetweenrequestscomingfromWebbrowsersorotherHTTPclientsanddatabasesorapplicationsontheHTTPserver.Theirjobistoperfor
2、mthefollowingtasks,asillustratedinFigure1-1.Figure1-11．Readtheexplicitdatasentbytheclient.TheendusernormallyentersthisdatainanHTMLformonaWebpage.However,thedatacouldalsocomefromanappletoracustomHTTPclientprogram.2．ReadtheimplicitHTTPrequestdatasentbythebrowser.Figure1-1showsasinglearrowgoingfromt
3、heclienttotheWebserver(thelayerwhereservletsandJSPexecute),buttherearereallytwovarietiesofdata:theexplicitdatathattheenduserentersinaformandthebehind-the-scenesHTTPinformation.Bothvarietiesarecritical.TheHTTPinformationincludescookies,informationaboutmediatypesandcompressionschemesthebrowserunder
4、stands,andsoon.3．Generatetheresults.Thisprocessmayrequiretalkingtoadatabase,executinganRMIorEJBcall,invokingaWebservice,orcomputingtheresponsedirectly.Yourrealdatamaybeinarelationaldatabase.Fine.Butyourdatabaseprobablydoesn'tspeakHTTPorreturnresultsinHTML,sotheWebbrowsercan'ttalkdirectlytothedata
5、base.Evenifitcould,forsecurityreasons,youprobablywouldnotwantitto.Thesameargumentappliestomostotherapplications.YouneedtheWebmiddlelayertoextracttheincomingdatafromtheHTTPstream,talktotheapplication,andembedtheresultsinsideadocument.4．Sendtheexplicitdata(i.e.,thedocument)totheclient.Thisdocumentc
6、anbesentinavarietyofformats,includingtext(HTMLorXML),binary(GIFimages),orevenacompressedformatlikegzipthatislayeredontopofsomeotherunderlyingformat.But,HTMLisbyfarthemostcommonformat,soanimportantservlet/JSPtaskistowraptheresultsinsideofHTML.5．SendtheimplicitHTTPresponsedata.Figure1-1showsasingle
7、arrowgoingfromtheWebmiddlelayer(theservletorJSPpage)totheclient.But,therearereallytwovarietiesofdatasent:thedocumentitselfandthebehind-the-scenesHTTPinformation.Again,bothvarietiesarecriticaltoeffectivedevelopment.Send
