Re: Servlet Init method

Chris Pratt <[email protected]> writes:

> Actually, what I remember from the early days of Servlets, it is because the
> Servlet API is interface based, and you can't specify constructors in a Java
> interface. The developers decided to use a method that they can specify in
> the interface contract.
> (*Chris*)

Well, it's academic... but remember that GenericServlet is a class,
not an interface so we could have used that.

Applet's are also classes and they have a similar init method.

The real reason, as I said, is lifecycle management.



Nic

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