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What are the most common tasks performed in a servlet container?.
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Answer from AI
- Lifecycle management of servlets (loading, initialization, execution, destruction).
- Handling incoming HTTP requests: parsing headers, request body, determining request type (GET, POST, etc.).
- Forming HTTP responses: setting headers, sending response body.
- Multithreading: creating and managing thread pools for parallel request processing.
- Session management: creating, tracking, and managing user sessions.
- Security: user authentication and authorization.
- Resource management: access to application resources such as configuration files.
- Request redirection and dispatching (forwards and redirects).
- Error handling: catching and processing exceptions.
- Support for listeners to monitor application lifecycle and HTTP session events.