The Servlet Interface

EE5 --Servlet2.5

The Servlet interface is the central abstraction of the Java Servlet API. All servlets implement this interface either directly, or more commonly, by extending a class that implements the interface. The two classes in the Java Servlet API that implement the Servlet interface are GenericServlet and HttpServlet. For most purposes, Developers will extend HttpServlet to implement their servlets.

  • Request Handling Methods
  • Number of Instances
  • Servlet Life Cycle