Creating Web Applications with Http Servlets

Creating Web Applications with Http Servlets

Last Updated	1 November 2015
Source	On GitHub

This tutorial walks us through the process of creating a simple controller using HttpServlet to display Hello World.

Java EE Http servlets can be used from Kotlin much like any other Java library or framework. We'll see how to make a simple controller that returns "Hello, World!".

Defining the project and dependencies

In this tutorial we're going to be using Gradle but the same can be accomplished using either IntelliJ IDEA project structure or Maven. For details on setting up Gradle to work with Kotlin, see Using Gra