Web Container

Tomcat is a web container, when a request is made from Client to web server, it passes the request to web container and it’s web container job to find the correct resource to handle the request (servlet or JSP) and then use the response from the resource to generate the response and provide it to web server. Then web server sends the response back to the client.
When web container gets the request and if it’s for servlet then container creates two Objects
HTTPServletRequest and HTTPServletResponse. Then it finds the correct servlet based on the URL and creates a thread for the request. Then it invokes the servlet service() method and based on the HTTP method service() method invokes doGet() or doPost() methods. Servlet methods generate the dynamic page and write it to response. Once servlet thread is complete, container converts the response to HTTP response and send it back to client.