wha is the type of the objects created by container

[Sony Agrawal]

In Head First Servlet and JSp book, it says that,

The container sees that the request is for the servlet and creates two objects, HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse.

And the object is passed to service() which inturn pass the objects to doXXX().

But what is the actual type of the two objects that are created.. I cant be of the type HttpServletRequest ,HttpServletResponse because they are interfaces .

I am confused. Please correct me

[Paul Sturrock]

They will be whatever classes the container provides that implements these interfaces.

[Sony Agrawal]

Paul Sturrock wrote:They will be whatever classes the container provides that implements these interfaces.

Could you please explain this... I could not understand

[Devaka Cooray]

It is vendor-specific - i.e. specific to the container provider.

[Paul Sturrock]

What you are seeing is just how interfaces work. Something must implement them because, as you've rightly noticed, you cannot instantiate an interface. The Servlet container (e.g. Tomcat) is what provides the implementation. So they are of the type HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse (because they inmplement those interfaces), but their concrete implementation will be something else. As far as you are a Servlet/JSP writer you don't need to know/care what that implementation, because you will never use it directly.

[Ben Souther]

If you're still curious and want to see exactly what classes are implementing these types in your container, paste the following two lines into a JSP and hit it with your browser:

 
Request  is: <%=request.getClass().getName()%><br />
Response is: <%=response.getClass().getName()%>

[Sony Agrawal]

Thanks guys , Now things are clear..