Understand the Servlet plan for the course project
The servlets in this course will be of pracitcal Java Servlet use.
You will be adding small features to an ever-growing servlet so that in the end, you will have a more useful example.

When it is finished, your servlet will

1. gather data from an applet or an HTML form,
2. read from and write to a database,
3. and even send email to notify you that it has run.

These are activities that almost every interactive Web site will make use of.
Many of the exercises will build on the solutions to earlier ones.
Those solutions will be available to you via XML.