statement about init() method

[Iftikhar Arain]

init() is called only once per instance. And it is called when the servlet container loads the servlet. In cases of high load, it may also instantiate multiple instances of a servlet. In this case, init() will be called on each of the instances.
I think according to the API if servlet does not implement SingleThreadModel then only one instance is created and mutiple threads share this instance.

[Dominic Steng�rd]

Hello,
The init(ServletConfig) method will only be called once. The only two exceptions are if you have declared that this class will implement the SingleThreadModel interface or if more than one <servlet> element is defined in the web.xml file having the same servlet class names.
Regards
[ October 19, 2002: Message edited by: Dominic Steng�rd ]

[Iftikhar Arain]

Thanks Dominic .