Servlets

By
Sindhu.K
 Features
Server side java program
Resides in server
Responds to client’s request
Handles multiple requests coming from clients
Client uses HTTP protocol to request the web page
Servlets sends its response in the form of DHTML document
This can be viewed through the browsers where the client is
running
More efficient than CGI (Common Gateway Interface) or
Perl.
Interface Servlets
Methods that help to build servlet are defined here
The methods are:
init()
service()
destroy()
getServletConfig()
getServletInfo()
These are called automatically when a servlet is
executed.
Implementation
Servlet interface is implemented in two
abstract classes
javax.servlet.GenericServlet
Protocol independent

javax.servlet.HttpServlet
Http servlet suitable for web

applications.
HttpServlet Class
Sub class of GenericServlet class.
Methods used:
doGet()
 To handle GET request
doPost()
 To handle POST request (used when a large amount of data is
to be sent to the server from a client).
Note:
GET requests are cached in the client machine
Method Syntax
Void doGet(HttpServletRequest req,
HttpServletResponse res)

Void doPost(HttpServletRequest req,

HttpServletResponse res)