Who Should Read This Specification
The intended audience for this specification includes the following groups:vi Java Servlet Specification • April 2013
■ Web server and application server vendors that want to provide servlet engines
that conform to this standard.
■ Authoring tool developers that want to support Web applications that conform to
this specification
■ Experienced servlet authors who want to understand the underlying mechanisms
of servlet technology.
We emphasize that this specification is not a user’s guide for servlet developers and
is not intended to be used as such. References useful for this purpose are available
from http://java.sun.com/products/servlet.
