RE: [WEB400] Java CGI program

[David Gibbs <dgibbs@xxxxxxx>]

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> In order to invoke Java in response to a browser request you
> need to use
> servlets.

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I don't think that's strictly true ...

Although I haven't tried it, you should be able to invoke java as a
stand-alone CGI program, without having the app server framework.

True, you wouldn't get most of the advantages that running servlet's give
you ... but it could interrogate the environmental variables, read stdin (as
appropriate), generate the appropriate HTML response and spit it out to
stdout.
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david