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Also known as a servlet engine

An extension to a web server

The servlet engine is a key component to an application server

Uses HTTP to communicate with the client (requires HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1)

Takes the request data from the web server, processes it, then responds back through the web server

The servlet container may place security restrictions on the servlets running in the container (like whether or not a Thread object can be created or manipulated directly) in order to insulate other components in the container from being negatively impacted.

Java Servlets are currently part of the J2EE API

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