how servlets handle multiple requests concurrently

hi all,
Servlets typically run inside multithreaded servlet containers that can handle multiple requests concurrently.please explain how these multiple requests are processed by the servlet's service method at a time.

thanks in advance
saiprasanna

hi
its by creating one thread for each request on the servlet instance(which is only one for a servlet).
thanks in advance
saiprasanna

Not necessarily. Containers often maintain a pool of threads for performing threaded tasks. A Thread from the thread pool is usually assigned the task rather than creating a new one for each incomming request.

A thread can be reused naturally in keep alive implementation.