Question on Servlets

[Vineela Devi]

Hi,

Can anyone please tell me whether there is anyway to find the no of Servlets in a given web application?

Regards,
Vineela

[Ulf Dittmer]

Look at the web.xml file?

[Vineela Devi]

without looking at web.xml

[Ulf Dittmer]

Why not?

You can also look at the source code or the class files and count how many implement HttpServlet.

[Ben Souther]

I don't think there is anything in the spec for doing this.

Check with the documentation for the container you're using to see what they offer. I know that Tomcat will show you the deployed servlets if you fire up the HTML Manager app and go to Server Status -> Complete Server Status you'll see a list of all the servlets deployed in each application along with some data for each of them.

Mind if I ask why you would want to know this?

[Vineela Devi]

One of my friends was asked this question in an interview.