Enterprise JavaBeans, 3.0

20.1. Servlets The servlet specification defines a server-side component model that can be implemented by web server vendors. Servlets provide a simple but powerful API for generating web pages dynamically. (Although servlets can ...

20.2. JavaServer Pages JavaServer Pages is an extension of the servlet component model that simplifies the process of generating HTML dynamically. JSP essentially allows you to incorporate Java directly into an HTML page as a scripting ...

20.3. Web Components and EJB Together, servlets and JSP provide a powerful platform for generating web pages dynamically. Servlets and JSP, which are collectively called web components , can access resources such as JDBC and enterprise beans....

20.4. Filling in the Gaps The Java EE specification attempts to fill in the gaps between the web components and Enterprise JavaBeans by defining how these technologies come together to form a complete platform. One of the ways in which Jav...