Chapter 11. StandardWrapper

You have learned in Chapter 5 that there are four types of containers: engine, host, context, and wrapper. You have also built your own simple contexts and wrappers in previous chapters. A context normally has one or more wrappers, in which each wrapper represents a servlet definition. This chapter will now look at the standard implementation of the Wrapper interface in Catalina. It starts by explaining the sequence of methods that get invoked for each HTTP request and continues with the javax.servlet.SingleThreadModel interface. The chapter concludes by explaining the StandardWrapper and StandardWrapperValve classes. The application that accompanies this chapter uses StandardWrapper instances to represents servlets.