ONJava.com -- How Servlet Containers Work

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The Servlet interface has five methods, whose signatures are as follows:

public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException

public void service(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response)
	throws ServletException, java.io.IOException

public java.lang.String getServletInfo()

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This method is called only after all threads within the servlet's service method have exited or after a timeout period has passed

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When the servlet is called for the first time, load the servlet class and call its init method (once only).

For each request, construct an instance of javax.servlet.ServletRequest and an instance of javax.servlet.ServletResponse.

Invoke the servlet's service method, passing the ServletRequest and ServletResponse objects.

When the servlet class is shut down, call the servlet's destroy method and unload the servlet class.

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