This article recounts Ron Garrett’s unlikely journey from NASA’s JPL to Google, his weekly plane commute, the chaotic development of the first AdWords system using Java and JSP, the billing bugs he faced, and how his work became the foundation of Google’s multibillion‑dollar advertising empire.
This article presents a comprehensive ChatGPT‑driven code review of a password‑recovery feature, analyzing twelve front‑end and back‑end files, highlighting structural strengths, security gaps such as CSRF and XSS, and offering concrete refactoring, validation, and resource‑management recommendations.
This article walks through building a complete password‑recovery feature for a Java web application, detailing the workflow, database schema, validation logic, JSP integration, controller design, and optional email/SMS notification code generated by ChatGPT.
The article reviews Java technologies that have become outdated—such as JSP, Struts, Hibernate, Applet, Swing, JDBC, and XML—explaining why they no longer merit learning and recommending modern alternatives like Spring MVC, MyBatis, and a deep understanding of Servlets for today's backend development.
The article reviews decades of Java evolution, evaluates JSP, Struts, Hibernate, Servlet and other legacy tools against real‑world usefulness, interview relevance, and learning value, and advises developers on which technologies to drop and which fundamentals to master.
The article reviews several Java backend technologies—JSP, Struts, Hibernate, Servlet, Applet, Swing, JDBC, and XML—explaining why they are now considered obsolete or low‑priority and recommending modern alternatives such as Spring MVC, MyBatis, and deep Servlet knowledge for current development.
Based on 20 years of Java experience, this article evaluates Java technologies like JSP, Struts, Hibernate, and Servlet against practical use, depth of understanding, and interview relevance, recommending which to drop, which to master, and highlighting alternatives such as Spring MVC and MyBatis.
This article reviews outdated Java technologies—JSP, Struts, Hibernate, and others—explaining why they are no longer essential for modern backend development and offering clear guidance on which skills to prioritize or abandon.
The article examines which Java backend technologies are considered obsolete—such as JSP, Struts, Hibernate, and others—by applying criteria like practical usage, depth of understanding, and interview relevance, and advises learners on what to drop, prioritize, or master for modern development.
This guide explains how Spring Boot automatically registers Servlet, Filter, and Listener beans, how to customize their mappings with registration beans, configure the embedded servlet container, and handle JSP limitations, providing code examples and practical tips for backend developers.
The article advises Java developers to abandon learning outdated technologies such as JSP, Struts, and Hibernate, while emphasizing the continued importance of mastering Servlets and recommending a shift to modern frameworks like Spring MVC and MyBatis for effective backend development.
This article reviews several Java backend technologies—JSP, Struts, Hibernate, Servlet, and others—explaining why they are considered outdated or unnecessary for modern development and offering guidance on what newcomers should focus on instead.
This article reviews several Java technologies that have become obsolete or less relevant—such as JSP, Struts, Hibernate, Applet, Swing, JDBC, and XML—explaining why newcomers can safely ignore them and focus on modern alternatives like Spring MVC, MyBatis, and deep Servlet knowledge.
Drawing on two decades of Java experience, this article evaluates outdated Java technologies—JSP, Struts, Hibernate, and others—based on real‑world development relevance, interview usefulness, and depth of understanding, and offers clear recommendations on what to skip and what to master.
The article reviews decades of Java development, explaining why technologies such as JSP, Struts, Hibernate, Applet, Swing, JDBC, and XML are now largely obsolete for new learners, and recommends focusing on Spring MVC, MyBatis, and a deep understanding of Servlets.
This article explains what cookies are, how they are represented and transmitted in HTTP, their lifecycle, common attributes, and demonstrates practical usage with Java's Cookie API, JSP pages, and servlet code to achieve automatic login and session management.
Tomcat is an open‑source Java web server that implements core Java EE specifications such as Servlets and JSPs, and its architecture comprises containers like Server, Service, Connector, and Catalina, each with components (Engine, Host, Context, Wrapper) that manage lifecycle stages, request processing pipelines, valves, connectors (BIO/NIO/APR), JSP compilation, and asynchronous servlet handling.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Tomcat, covering its role as an open‑source Java web server, the internal components such as Server, Service, Connector, and Container, lifecycle management, servlet and JSP processing, connector types, pipeline/valve mechanisms, Comet push, and asynchronous servlet support.
This article provides a step‑by‑step tutorial for building a hospital registration web application with Java, Spring MVC, MyBatis, JSP pages, and MySQL, covering environment setup, database schema, DAO interfaces, service implementation, controller logic, and front‑end pages.
JavaBeans are Java classes that follow a standard interface with constructors, getters, and setters, supporting simple, indexed, bound, and constrained property types, and are used in JSP via the jsp:useBean and jsp:getProperty/jsp:setProperty tags to encapsulate components, manage scopes, and enable event‑driven property change notifications.
This article provides a comprehensive technical deep‑dive into Apache Tomcat, covering its role as a Java EE web server, core components such as Server, Service, Connector, Container, the detailed lifecycle management, servlet and JSP processing, various connector implementations, NIO handling, Comet push technology, and asynchronous servlet support.
This article presents a complete Java‑based hospital registration system built with Spring MVC, MyBatis, and JSP, detailing the development environment, database schema, source code for controllers, DAOs, services, configuration files, and web pages to enable patient search, registration, and status updates.
The article argues that, unless required for legacy projects, learning JSP is unnecessary today because modern frontend frameworks, Spring's shift away from JSP, and microservice architectures all render JSP obsolete for contemporary Java web development.
The article explains how traditional Java web projects that bundle JSP, static assets, and business logic into a single WAR cause performance and scalability issues, and advocates separating front‑end static resources from back‑end services to achieve true decoupling, better fault tolerance, and easier horizontal scaling.
The article explains how traditional Java web projects that rely on JSP tightly couple front‑end and back‑end, causing performance and scalability issues, and argues that modern large‑scale applications should adopt a decoupled architecture with static front‑end resources served by nginx and APIs delivered by backend services.
This article explains the differences between JSP and Servlets, lists JSP built‑in objects and scopes, compares Session and Cookie mechanisms, describes session operation and alternatives when cookies are disabled, contrasts Spring MVC with Struts, and outlines common web security measures such as preventing SQL injection, XSS, and CSRF attacks.
This tutorial demonstrates how to configure Spring MVC in a Java web project by modifying web.xml, creating DispatcherServlet, implementing controllers and DTOs, setting up JSP pages with Bootstrap, handling JSTL date formatting using custom tags for Java 8 LocalDateTime, and integrating modular JavaScript for a seckill (flash sale) application.
This article walks through the evolution of front‑end architecture—from tightly coupled JSP/Servlet setups, through semi‑separated Ajax‑driven pages, to fully separated front‑end/back‑end designs with Node.js—highlighting their advantages, drawbacks, and practical lessons for developers.
This comprehensive guide introduces Java fundamentals, covering object‑oriented concepts, the collections framework, various I/O streams, socket communication, relational database basics with SQL examples, and an overview of JSP, its objects, directives, and web application lifecycle.
This article presents practical Java backend optimization techniques, covering servlet session memory management, JSP buffering, include strategies, efficient HashMap traversal, array versus ArrayList choices, and best practices for strings, splits, and general code performance.
This tutorial walks through setting up a Spring MVC environment with Eclipse, Tomcat, and JDK, importing required JARs, configuring web.xml and springmvc.xml, writing a HelloWorld controller, creating JSP views, and handling common issues such as static resource mapping and server integration.
This article describes a frontend engineer's exploration of i18n for JSP and VM pages, detailing the challenges of hard‑coded strings, the use of jquery‑i18next, gettext tools, a custom i18n‑gettext npm package, Makefile automation, and the resulting workflow for extracting, merging and compiling translation files.
This guide explains five common scenarios where Chinese characters appear garbled in Java web applications—JSP pages, servlets, POST form submissions, URI parameters, and properties files—and provides step‑by‑step configurations such as setting pageEncoding, response content type, request character encoding, Tomcat URIEncoding, and using native2ascii.
