Servlet Query

[T sandya]

Hi Friends,

1.Can we overload and override the init(),service(),destroy() in servlet?

2.What about in JSP? jspinit()....

Regards,
Sandya.

[Shashi Kant]

Hi Sandya

yes you can override the init(),service(),destroy() in servlet.

You cannot override the _jspService() method within a JSP page. You can however, override the jspInit() and jspDestroy() methods within a JSP page. jspInit() can be useful for allocating resources like database connections, network connections, and so forth for the JSP page. It is good programming practice to free any allocated resources within jspDestroy().
The jspInit() and jspDestroy() methods are each executed just once during the lifecycle of a JSP page and are typically declared as JSP declarations:
<%!
public void jspInit() {
. . .
}
%>
<%!
public void jspDestroy() {
. . .
}
%>

[Ulf Dittmer]

Note that generally you should not override the service method, but rather doGet or doPost. This is also mentioned in the javadocs.

[Muhammad Saifuddin]

Originally posted by T sandya:

1.Can we overload and override the init(),service(),destroy() in servlet?

The init method must complete successfully before the servlet can receive any requests. A servlet programmer can override this method to write initialization code that needs to run only once, such as loading a database driver, initializing values, and so on. In other cases, this method is normally left blank.

Follow this link to read more about the methods of javax.servlet.Servlet Interface

[Pradeep bhatt]

You cannot override the _jspService() method within a JSP page

You can override _jspService() even though one would never need to.

[T sandya]

what about overloading?

[Pradeep bhatt]

Originally posted by T sandya:
what about overloading?

You can always overload.