SE452: Web Applications [13/24]

A Web Application is a collection of servlets, html files, JSPs, classes, and resources used by a servlet container

There is a one-to-one relationship between webapps and a ServletContext object

Web applications are a way to package an application for the servlet container and separate multiple applications from one another inside the same container

To create a web application context, the servlet container must be configured.

In Tomcat, the web application is placed in a directory under "tomcat_root"/webapps

The context must be configured for the application server to use it. Requests will be dispatched to that webapp based on the URI used to access it.