What is a servlet engine?

Created May 4, 2012

Alex Chaffee

A "servlet engine" is a program that plugs in to a web server and runs servlets. The term is obsolete; the preferred term now is "servlet container" since that applies both to plug-in engines and to stand-alone web servers that support the Servlet API.

For more detail, see What are all the different kinds of servers? in this FAQ.