Re: Servlet Init method

Sreenath N <[email protected]> writes:

> Reason might be init() method needs a ServletConfig object to be passed
> which is used for retreving the init-params and the container can't expect
> the user to write a constructor which takes the ServletConfig object
> .

No. Clearly this is wrong, type checking can enforce that requirement:

   public abstract class Servlet
   {
       public Servlet(ServletConfig sc)
       {
          // do some stuff
       }


       // do some stuff
   }


The reason a servlet has an init method, as opposed to a constructor
is that a constructed instance of a servlet can be deployed and
undeployed from a container several times during it's lifetime.


Nic Ferrier
http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk

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