nickc: For a long time, people just mostly did wha...

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nickc: For a long time, people just mostly did what Sun (then Oracle) said: write your servlets and deploy them in a separate app server (analog to IIS). Eventually enough people realized that there wasn't much point to that painful separation, and started writing self-contained apps that used their own HTTP server. This opened up the field to a lot of different styles of doing that general idea.