Erik Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>The purpose of a servlet is to get requests from a web browser and send
>>HTML
>>>back to the web browser. Pure presentation.
>Joe Sam Shirah wrote:
>
>> I'd say ONE purpose; servlet technology can be used for far more than
just
>> this.
James Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>how about:
>
> the servlet api allows for *any* http originating request to
> be serviced by a server-side component which in turn can
> leverage the *entire* server-side java platform
I would agree with this. The *entire* server-side java platform can consist
of any or all of the three layers. In my mind, the servlet itself is still
part of the presentation layer, but maybe I'm being too narrow.
Erik
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