Using Jakarta Servlet for request and response management

Jakarta Servlet was created even before Jakarta EE existed – actually, before J2EE existed! It became part of EE in J2EE 1.2 (Servlet 2.2) in 1999.

This is a powerful tool that's used to deal with request/response contexts. This recipe will show you an example of how to do this.

Getting ready

Let's add our dependencies:

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax</groupId>
    <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
    <version>8.0</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

How to do it...

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