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Servlet - Servlet Container - Servlet Lifecycle - Types of Servlets - Advantages of Servlets - Servlet Example

Servlets are Java programs that run on a web server and respond to requests from clients. Servlets are controlled and managed by a servlet container like Tomcat. The servlet container loads, initializes, executes servlets and provides request and response objects. There are two main types of servlets - generic servlets and HTTP servlets. Servlets provide a powerful way to develop dynamic web applications and have advantages like portability, efficiency, and extensibility. An example HelloWorld servlet is provided that extends HttpServlet and overrides doGet to print a simple HTML page.

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Servlet - Servlet Container - Servlet Lifecycle - Types of Servlets - Advantages of Servlets - Servlet Example

Servlets are Java programs that run on a web server and respond to requests from clients. Servlets are controlled and managed by a servlet container like Tomcat. The servlet container loads, initializes, executes servlets and provides request and response objects. There are two main types of servlets - generic servlets and HTTP servlets. Servlets provide a powerful way to develop dynamic web applications and have advantages like portability, efficiency, and extensibility. An example HelloWorld servlet is provided that extends HttpServlet and overrides doGet to print a simple HTML page.

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Topics

•Servlet

•Servlet container

•Servlet lifecycle

•Types of Servlets

•Advantages of servlets

•Servlet example
What is servlet?
• Servlets are server side components that provide a
powerful mechanism for developing server side
programs.

• Servlets provide component-based, platform-


independent methods for building Web-based
applications.

• Servlets run entirely inside the Java Virtual Machine.

• Servlets are controlled by container.


Servlet Container
• A servlet container is nothing but a
compiled, executable program. The main
function of the container is to load,
initialize and execute servlets.

• Tomcat is one of the example of a


container.
Servlet container
What does container do?
• It creates an instance of the servlet and calls its init()
method to initialize it.

• It constructs a request object to pass to the servlet.

• It constructs a response object for the servlet.

• It invokes the servlet service() method, The service


method dispatches requests to the servlet doGet() or
doPost() methods, depending on the HTTP header in the
request (GET or POST).

• It calls the destroy() method of the servlet to discard it,


when appropriate, so that it can be garbage collected.
Lifecycle of servlet
Servlet Types
Generic Servlets:
• It belongs to [Link] package 

• It is a protocol-independent servlet.  

• To write a GenericServlet you need


abstract service() to be overridden. 
Http servlet:

• It belongs to [Link] package 

• It’s direct subclass to GenericServlet

• A subclass of HttpServlet must override at least


one method of doGet(), doPost(),doPut(),
doDelete(), init(), destroy(), getServletInfo()

• Specifically designed for Http.


Advantages of Java Servlets

• Portability.
• Powerful
• Efficiency
• Safety
• Extensibilty
• Inexpensive
Servlet Example
import [Link].*;
import [Link].*;
import [Link].*;

public class HelloWorld extends HttpServlet
{
 public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse 
response) throws ServletException,IOException
{
    [Link]("text/html");
    PrintWriter pw = [Link]();
    [Link]("<html>");
    [Link]("<head><title>Hello World</title></title>");
    [Link]("<body>");
    [Link]("<h1>Hello World</h1>");
    [Link]("</body></html>");
  }
}
Thank you

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