difference work of between init() and constructor?

[munjal upadhyay]

I have read the headFirst jsp and servlet
but still not clear about this ....

[Prashant Chindhade]

The constructor is called by the container simply to create a POJO (plain old java object).

init method is the method which is invoked when servlet in called and it adds values to the servlet context so its a very much difference between constructor and init method...

regs

Prashant

[Mac Luq]

prashant chindhade wrote:The constructor is called by the container simply to create a POJO (plain old java object).

init method is the method which is invoked when servlet in called and it adds values to the servlet context so its a very much difference between constructor and init method...

regs

Prashant

It's not when the servlet is called but initialized. And it happens only once, as I told you in a different thread.

[Bear Bibeault]

The init() method is used to initialize a servlet as it has access to the ServletConfig instance while the constructor does not. This has been asked many tomes before. Please SearchFirst before posting.