Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond ...

One of the original Java web technologies, JSP is still widely used with servlets and JSTL. Here's how to use Jakarta Server Pages to build dynamic web pages that connect to the Java back end.

I recently published an article on screen scraping with Java, and a few Twitter followers pondered why I used JSoup instead of the popular, browser-less web testing framework HtmlUnit. I didn’t have a ...

Packaging Java web apps as WARs Like JAR, the Web Application ARchive (WAR), the default format for packaging Java web apps, isn't particularly special. When the Servlet and JavaServer Pages ...