Jakarta Servlet
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Jakarta EE programming language class
Key facts
- Original author
- Pavni Diwanji
- Developer
- Eclipse Foundation
- Initial release
- December 1996 ; 29 years ago ( 1996-12 )
- Stable release
- 6.1 / March 28, 2024 ; 2 years ago ( 2024-03-28 )
- Written in
- Java
- Platform
- Jakarta EE
- Size
- 2.56 MB
- Type
- Software component for Web API
- License
- Eclipse Public License
- Website
- jakarta .ee /specifications /servlet /
- Repository
- github .com /jakartaee /servlet
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at

Jakarta Servlet | Jakarta EE | The Eclipse Foundation
Jakarta Servlet defines a server-side API for handling HTTP requests and responses.
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Source code
Jakarta Servlet defines a server-side API for handling HTTP requests and responses. All test challenges for Jakarta Servlet must be resolved by Active Resolution. Please see the TCK Users guide for more details.
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Jakarta EE
- Creator
- Sun Microsystems
- Developer
- Eclipse Foundation
- Platform
- Jakarta EE
- Official website
- projects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j.servlet
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/servlets
- facet of
- server software
- source code repository URL
- github.com/jakartaee/servlet
- copyright license
- GPL linking exception
- software version identifier
- 6.1.0
- described at URL
- jakarta.ee/specifications/servlet
- user manual URL
- javadoc.io/doc/jakarta.servlet/jakarta.servlet-api
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