Servlets

Links

http://www.servlets.com/
Servlet Best Practices, Part 1
- Choose the Right Servlet Framework - Eh
- Use Pre-Encoded Characters - OK
  - Avoid converting bytes to chars
- Load Configuration Files from the Classpath - Good
- Think of Sessions as a Local Cache - OK (But most web app devs should know it already)
- Don't Use SingleThreadModel - Great
Servlet Best Practices, Part 2
- Pregenerate content offline and devlope a process to regenerate it when needed - OK
  - Anakia is an Jakarta tool listed.
- Cache on the client (Implement getLastModified) - Good
- Cache at the proxy (Set Expires header) - Good
  - Cache-Control Header
  - Overview of Cache Stratagies
- Cache on the server - OK
- … Or don't cache at all (The headers to set to completly disable caching) - Good
Servlet Best Practices, Part 3
- Use Content-Disposition to Send a File - Good
- Hire a UI Designer - Good