Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1 Developer's Guide

Servlet Character Encoding

This section explains how the Enterprise Server determines the character encoding for the servlet request and the servlet response. For encodings you can use, see http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/intl/encoding.doc.html.

Servlet Request

When processing a servlet request, the server uses the following order of precedence, first to last, to determine the request character encoding:

For details about the parameter-encoding element, see parameter-encoding in Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1 Application Deployment Guide.

Servlet Response

When processing a servlet response, the server uses the following order of precedence, first to last, to determine the response character encoding: