A web server takes a request from the client and send the response back to the client. A servlet is a web application component that can talk to web server through the container it’s deployed into. We know , we need to do servlet mapping into web.xml to define the url pattern to access the [...]

I am writing this post on the basis of my learning on refreshing UI(User interface) without restarting server(Tomcat , in my case) on update of an XML which resides inside the container. Often we follow the design where we write our application configuration into an XML file and read – write the XML based on the requirements.