Oracle became stewards of the Java platform as a by-product of their acquisition of Sun Microsystems. But looking back, it seems that the Java Platform has been more of a burden than a blessing.

for example, when a container wants to reclaim memory resources, or when it is being shut down), it calls the destroy method of the Servlet interface. In this method, you release any resources the ...

Servlet class loading: For each servlet defined in the deployment descriptor of the Web application, the servlet container locates and loads a class of the type of the servlet. This can happen when ...

Servlets were designed to allow for extension of a server providing any service. Currently, however, only HTTP and JSP page servlets are supported. In the future, a developer may be able to extend an ...