Java Servlet API Specification - Version 2.1

Version 2.1 is the latest final version of the Java^TM Servlet API Specification.

Changes of note include a programmatic interface for request forwarding and server side includes, as well as facilities for resource abstraction. In addition, the API has been modified for distributed servlet engines.

Version 2.1 has a number of new and deprecated classes and methods.

The Specification

The specification is available in the following formats:

• PDF (~257K)
• PostScript (~557K)
• HTML files in zip format (~39K, for Windows)
• HTML files in compressed tar format (~55K, for UNIX)

Servlet API Documentation

JavaDoc documentation for the servlet API is available here.

Comment on the Specification

As always, your comments are important to the development of the Servlet API. Please send all comments to servletapi-feedback@eng.sun.com.

JavaServer Web Development Kit

The JSWDK 1.0 is the reference implementation of JavaServer Pages^TM 1.0 technology and Java Servlet API 2.1. The JSWDK is available at no charge.

Download JSWDK 1.0

The Interface Classes

If you are solely interested in the interfaces classes which contain the classes and source files for the Java Servlet 2.1.1 javax.servlet and javax.servlet.http packages, you can download them here. Download the Interface Classes