How Java Web Servers Work

A web server is also called a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server because it uses HTTP to communicate with its clients, which are usually web browsers.

A Java-based web server uses two important classes, java.net.Socketand java.net.ServerSocket, and communicates through HTTP messages.

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