Java2 Platform Enterprise Edition Platform And Component Specifications

SRV.P.4 Other Important References

The following Internet specifications provide information relevant to the development and implementation of the servlet API and engines which support the servlet API:

• RFC 1630 Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)

• RFC 1738 Uniform Resource Locators (URL)

• RFC 1808 Relative Uniform Resource Locators

• RFC 1945 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.0)

• RFC 2045 MIME Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies

• RFC 2046 MIME Part Two: Media Types

• RFC 2047 MIME Part Three: Message Header Extensions for non-ASCII text

• RFC 2048 MIME Part Four: Registration Procedures

• RFC 2049 MIME Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples

• RFC 2109 HTTP State Management Mechanism

• RFC 2145 Use and Interpretation of HTTP Version Numbers

• RFC 2324 Hypertext Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) ^[1]

  ^[1] This reference is mostly tongue-in-cheek although most of the concepts described in the HTCPCP RFC are relevant to all well-designed web servers.

• RFC 2616 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1)

• RFC 2617 HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Authentication

You can locate the online versions of any of these RFCs at:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/

The World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org/) is a definitive source of HTTP related information that affects this specification and its implementations.

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is utilized by the deployment descriptors described in this specification. More information about XML can be found at the following web sites:

http://java.sun.com/

http://www.xml.org/