First off, I think the notion of sighting wikipedia as the end all be all of a definition is highly suspect. After all, anyone can change the Wikipedia at any time. For instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colbert_Report#_note-34
"On January 29, 2007, Colbert cited the case where Microsoft was alleged to have hired someone [52] to tamper with Wikipedia..." I like all the responses that Google has for define:servlet. You may want to quote one of them for your answer. http://www.google.com/search?q=define:Servlet This does sound a lot like a homework question or an interview question. Hope I helped, -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of yitzle Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 4:29 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [S2] Obtaining Session/Request Object On 5/29/07, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm starting to feel like we're doing your > homework for you. I'm sorry you feel that way. If you prefer not to reply, its your prerogative. I am just trying to understand the technology. > A "Struts project" is not a servlet. A Struts project > might *have* a servlet (and in S1 is pretty much > guaranteed to have at least one), but in S2 they might > be considered an anomaly. "JSPs are compiled into Java Servlets by a JSP compiler. [1]" The way I see it, so long as the result is a JSP page, the project contains a servlet. Granted, one can easily write the viewer component without JSP, but I think its fair to guess that a large percentage of Struts projects make use of JSP pages. > A web application is any application that runs on the > web, like a blog, or web email, or social site, or > whatever. A blog, web mail or social site that was written in Java and runs on or inside a standard server such as Tomcat would be a servlet, though. As far as I can tell, it meets all the requirements. It sounds like, for any program (end point; excluding containers, such as Tomcat, Struts, etc) accessed via a browser, if it is written in Java, it is a servlet, otherwise its a web application. How about a solid clear definition of a servlet? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaServer_Pages --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
